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Webster 1913 Edition
Caladium
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Ca-la′di-um
,Noun.
[NL.]
A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
Definition 2024
Caladium
Caladium
See also: caladium
Translingual
Proper noun
Caladium n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Araceae – tuberous plants with colorful leaves, naive to the tropical Americas, used for their ornamental purposes, elephant ears, heart of Jesus, angel's wings.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Alismatales - order; Araceae - family; Aroideae - subfamily; Caladieae - tribus:
Hyponyms
- (genus): Caladium andreanum, Caladium bicolor, Caladium coerulescens, Caladium humboldtii, Caladium lindenii, Caladium macrotites, Caladium picturatum, Caladium schomburgkii, Caladium smaragdinum, {taxlink|Caladium steyermarkii|species|noshow=1}}, Caladium ternatum, Caladium tuberosum - species
caladium
caladium
See also: Caladium
English
Noun
caladium (plural caladiums)
- Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants.
- Any of the ornamental cultivars of Caladium bicolor