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dahlia

/ˈdeɪ.li.ə/US/ˈdæl.jə/

dahlia noun: any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

dahlia: any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico
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Noun

dahlia (plural dahlias)

  1. Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Proper noun capitalized: Dahlia

Dahlia

  1. A female given name from English.
    • The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.2006, Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 175
    • He was afraid that Delia or Della might mention a cousin named Dahlia, and he would laugh. Sweet Jesus, do not let me laugh inappropriately.2020, Marilynne Robinson, Jack, Hachette UK, →ISBN

dahlia meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

dahlia in Tamil

இது மெக்சிக்கோ, கொலம்பியா

dahlia in Urdu

any plant of the genus Dahlia
ڈہلیا ḍahliyā

dahlia in Bengali

any plant of the genus Dahlia
ডালিয়া ḍaliẏa

dahlia in Kannada

ಡೇಲಿಯ, ಡೇರೆ ಹೂವು
More languagesFewer languages
dahlia in Tagalog
dalya
dahlia in Arabic
دَالِيَّا dāliyyā
dahlia in Indonesian
dahlia
dahlia in Thai
รักเร่ rák-rêe
dahlia in Vietnamese
thược dược
dahlia in Myanmar
ဒေလီယာ deliya

Forms of dahlia

pluraldahlias

Plural of dahlia: dahlias

Origin of dahlia

Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.

From the flower dahlia in the 19th century.

Words formed from dahlia

Words that rhyme with dahlia

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dahlia

What does dahlia mean?
Dahlia means any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
What is dahlia in Tamil?
Dahlia in Tamil is இது மெக்சிக்கோ, கொலம்பியா. See Dahlia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dahlia?
Dahlia can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dahlia?
Dahlia is pronounced /ˈdeɪ.li.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of dahlia?
The plural of dahlia is dahlias.

Words near dahlia in the dictionary

  1. Dahles
  2. Dahlesque
  3. Dahlgren
  4. Dahlgrens
  5. Dahlhausen
  6. dahlia
  7. Dahlian
  8. dahlias
  9. Dahlik
  10. dahlin
  11. dahline

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dahlia (page history and authors); Dahlia (page history and authors); dahlia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dahlia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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