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Popular garden flower
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dahlia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, named 1791 by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles for Anders Dahl (1751-1789), Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnaeus, who discovered it in Mexico in 1788. The likelihood that a true blue variety of the flower never could be cultivated was first ...
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Dahlia (March 25, 1970 – 6 April 2001) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare . She won major races in France , England , Ireland , Canada , and the United States . She was the first Thoroughbred mare to earn more than $1 million and ...
Usage examples of dahlia.
We stayed at Cannes about two months, and except for the fact that Aunt Dahlia lost her shirt at baccarat and Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning, a pleasant time was had by all.
Dahlia tried her best to sound excited, and the other bridesmaids twittered obligingly.
A mixed bouquet of bright autumn colorszinnias and gerbera daisies and dahlias and one late sunflower splash.
And in opening my report of the complex case of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, my Cousin Angela, my Aunt Dahlia, my Uncle Thomas, young Tuppy Glossop and the cook, Anatole, with the above spot of dialogue, I see that I have made the second of these two floaters.
Not even Dahlia Heart, pleading personally with Judge Schor, induce the judge to change his mind.
Swinging by Dahlia House, I made sure Sweetie was inside and Reveler in his stall.
And while I was speeding townwards along the rails Judkin would be plodding his way to the vicarage bearing a vegetable marrow and a basketful of dahlias.
Vassar Lane that intersected with South Dahlia from the west was lined with modest, unrenovated houses that rested on decent lots and were shaded by mature trees.
At our fifteenth class reunion there was Verrie Myers, now Hollywood star Veronica Myers, on the eve of the opening of her seventy-sixmillion-dollar film starring Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood, how in the Crystal one afternoon she, Ginger McCord and Mary Schultz spied on Dahlia Heart and her mysterious daughter.
Dahlia gave him a look that was blanker than usual, since she was on the distracted side.
The sky opened out, a hemisphere of rich lapis lazuli lightly frosted with cirrocumulus in vast, sweeping bands so thin that the sun shone through like a giant dahlia.
Dahlia House from the auction block, and it was dognapping Chablis that eventually led Tinkie to hire me for my first case.
Everywhere Danlo looked, there were flowers: snow dahlia and sapphire blossoms and fireflowers of crimson and gold.
Of all the Hearts, Dahlia seemed the most moved by the sentimental story of children, dogs, nuns and love in the scenic Swiss Alps, she wiped at her eyes during crucial scenes, and laughed joyfully during others, though Mrs.
Kevin wished he could talk to Dahlia, if only for a moment so he could ask her if she still loved him as much as he loved her.