Word.ws English Dictionary

gaillardia

/ɡeɪˈlɑː(ɹ)dɪə/

gaillardia noun: any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia.

Noun

gaillardia (plural gaillardias)

  1. Any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia
    Synonyms:
    blanket flower

Synonyms of gaillardia

Forms of gaillardia

pluralgaillardias

Origin of gaillardia

From the genus name. Named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate and an enthusiastic botanist.

Questions about gaillardia

What does gaillardia mean?
Gaillardia means any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia.
What part of speech is gaillardia?
Gaillardia is a noun.
How do you pronounce gaillardia?
Gaillardia is pronounced /ɡeɪˈlɑː(ɹ)dɪə/.
What is the plural of gaillardia?
The plural of gaillardia is gaillardias.

Words near gaillardia in the dictionary

  1. Gailey
  2. Gaileys
  3. Gaillard
  4. gaillarde
  5. gaillardes
  6. gaillardia
  7. gaillardias
  8. Gaillards
  9. Gaillet
  10. gailliarde
  11. gailliardes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gaillardia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gaillardia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gaillardia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.