calla lily

Questions about calla lily

What does calla lily mean?

calla lily means "South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix".

What is another word for calla lily?

Close synonyms include calla, arum lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calla lily a common word?

calla lily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.