Translingual

Dahlia flowers

Wikispecies

Etymology

Named by botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804) after Swedish botanist Andreas Dahl (1751-1789).^[1][2]

Proper noun

Dahlia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the dahlias.

Hypernyms

• (tribe): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family

References

1. ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
2. ↑ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

English

Proper noun

Dahlia

1. A female given name.
   • 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0701179899, page 175:

     The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.

English

Wikispecies

A dahlia flower

Noun

dahlia ‎(plural dahlias)

1. Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Translations

References

• “dahlia” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).