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Dahlia

//ˈdeɪ.li.ə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English.

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
  2. 2
    any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.

Etymology 2

From the flower dahlia in the 19th century.

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