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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any member of the genus Lantana of perennial verbenas with aromatic flower clusters.

   "The batwings, full of tulips in May, are now abloom with cosmos, angelonia and lantana."

2. 2
   a genus of about 150 species of flowering shrub, commonly known as shrub verbenas or lantanas wordnet

Example

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"The batwings, full of tulips in May, are now abloom with cosmos, angelonia and lantana."

Etymology

From translingual Lantana (genus name), from (northern dialect) Italian lantana (“the wayfaring-tree, Viburnum lantana”).

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