dahlia
IPA: dˈæɫjʌ
noun
- Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
- A female given name from English.
Examples of "dahlia" in Sentences
- A dahlia from the garden of AKS, shot Labor Day weekend 2008.
- The term "dahlia" is used for the first time in 1791, when Cavanilles publishes Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum.
- Strangely, no blue variety has ever been cultivated, hence "blue dahlia" is sometimes used figuratively for something impossible or unattainable.
- Modern botanists agree that the dahlia is native to Mexico and Guatemala, but how did it come to be cultivated so widely all over the world today for its showy flowers?
- Later in the sixteenth century, the dahlia is described in the Codex Barberini, dating from 1552, and lost for centuries prior to its rediscovery in the Vatican Library in 1929.