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Definition of Laelia
1. Noun. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laelia
Literary usage of Laelia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1878)
"laelia had no mother, and had never grieved for that loss, except perhaps in her
dreams. ... And so laelia learned to draw, to paint, to judge of art work ..."
2. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"A closer connection between Gl' Ingannati and England is a Latin version called,
from the name of the heroine, laelia, which was acted at Queens' College, ..."
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1849)
"Procris had received this extremely swift animal as a present, laelia GENS, ...
laelia was celebrated for the purity with which she spoke her native ..."
4. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... after the manner of a laelia." It had been given to Dr. Lindley by Mr. blinds,
among plants collected near Hong Kong. Thus mutters stood till the autumn ..."
5. Ancient Coins of Cities and Princes, Geographically Arranged and Described by John Yonge Akerman (1846)
"laelia is mentioned by Ptolemy only.1 Some have supposed it had this name from
Scipio, ... R—laelia, between an ear of corn and a pine-branch. —JE.7. ..."
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