Caladium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants, especially an ornamental cultivar of Caladium bicolor.

    "The vegetation was most luxuriant, comprising enormous forest trees, as well as a variety of ferns, caladiums, and other undergrowth, and abundance of climbing rattan palms."

  2. 2
    any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red wordnet

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"The vegetation was most luxuriant, comprising enormous forest trees, as well as a variety of ferns, caladiums, and other undergrowth, and abundance of climbing rattan palms."

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Caladium.

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flowering plant

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