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kalmia

kalmia noun: any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.

Noun

kalmia (plural kalmias)

  1. Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.
    • Far in the dark old forest glades, / Where kalmias bloom around, / They had their place of youthful sport, / Their childhood's hunting-ground,— ...1849, James Thomas Fields, “Children in Exile”, in Poems
    • Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea.1918, John Muir, Steep Trails

Forms of kalmia

pluralkalmias

Origin of kalmia

Borrowed from translingual Kalmia, from Swedish Kalm + translingual -ia, equivalent to Kalm + -ia.

Questions about kalmia

What does kalmia mean?
Kalmia means any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.
What part of speech is kalmia?
Kalmia is a noun.
What is the plural of kalmia?
The plural of kalmia is kalmias.

Words near kalmia in the dictionary

  1. Kalmar
  2. Kalmar Union
  3. Kalmarian
  4. Kalmars
  5. Kalmenoff
  6. kalmia
  7. kalmias
  8. Kalmiuske
  9. Kalms
  10. kalmuck
  11. Kalmuckish

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