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Any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red
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caladium
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 Any of the genus ''Caladium'' of flowering plants. 2 # Any of the ornamental cultivars of (taxlink Caladium bicolor species noshow=1)
WordNet
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n. any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red
Wikipedia
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This article is about a plant whose common names include "Angel Wings" , "Heart of Jesus" and "elephant ear" For other uses for those terms, please see Angel Wing (disambiguation) and Heart of Jesus (disambiguation) . Caladium is a genus of flowering plants ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caladium \Ca*la"di*um\, n. [NL.] A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
Usage examples of caladium.
Two wings extended out toward the street, creating a garden-like area in the center that was planted with pink and gray caladium, banks of philodendrons and elephant ears, climbing roses, banana trees, bamboo, crepe myrtle and azaleas, whose blooms puffed in the wind and tumbled on the grass.
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
Potted begonias and caladiums dangled from the overhang, while baskets of kalanchoe dominated the center of wicker tables.
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
Neb prepared some agouti soup, a smoked capybara ham, to which was added the boiled tubercules of the caladium macrorhizum, an herbaceous plant of the arum family.