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delphinia

delphinia is the plural of delphinium.

Meaning of delphinium

Noun

delphinium (countable and uncountable, plural delphiniums or delphinia)

  1. (countable) A cultivated plant, belonging to the genus Delphinium, with tall blue-colored spikes containing flowers; a larkspur.
    • The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  2. A shade of blue, named for the flowers.

Noun

delphinia (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of delphinine.
    • The Crow-foot tribe is another group of plants yielding aconitina, delphinia, and other alkaloids, and the whole family is consequently to be suspected.1855, Edwin Lankester, “Vegetable Physiology”, in Edward Hughes, editor, Reading Lessons, first book, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, page 134
    • Strychnia, morphia, atropia, cantharadine, meconine, picrotoxia, and delphinia, after melting, deposited but a scanty carbonaceous ash;1861, William A. Guy, “On the Color Tests for Strychnia, and the Diagnosis of the Alkalies”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy...
    Synonyms:
    delphinine

Synonyms of delphinia

Questions about delphinia

What does delphinia mean?
Delphinia means synonym of delphinine.
What is delphinia the plural of?
Delphinia is the plural of delphinium.
What part of speech is delphinia?
Delphinia is a noun.

Words near delphinia in the dictionary

  1. delphin
  2. delphinal
  3. Delphinate
  4. delphine
  5. delphinese
  6. delphinia
  7. delphinic
  8. delphinic acid
  9. delphinid
  10. delphinidin
  11. delphinidins

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