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Definition of Arum lily
1. Noun. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Zantedeschia, Zantedeschia
Specialized synonyms: Pink Calla, Zantedeschia Rehmanii, Golden Calla
Definition of Arum lily
1. Noun. Any of several flowering plants, of the family ''Araceae'', but especially ''Zantedeschia aethiopica'', the calla lily that has a showy white spathe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arum Lily
Literary usage of Arum lily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"It resembles a huge arum lily, with the difference that in the Western Skunk
Cabbage the spathe is erect and pointed, extends somewhat over the flower spike ..."
2. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"... (the arum lily). The description of your tubers does not, however, at all fit
those of the arum lily, but it applies to some of the other ..."
3. Transactions of the City of London Entomological and Natural History Society by City of London Entomological & Natural History Society (1907)
"arum lily " SPORT."-Mr. Riches exhibited an arum lily with a somewhat abnormal
blossom, and a leaf white on the upper surface, save for a narrow border of ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... but in sweet-flag (Acorta Calamus) are long and narrow with parallel veins.
In Arum the blade is simple, as also in the so-called arum-lily ..."
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