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kalmia

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun kalmia has 1 sense

kalmia(n = noun.plant) - any plant of the genus Kalmia;

is a member of

genus kalmia

has particulars: american laurel, calico bush, kalmia latifolia, mountain laurel, wood laurel, bog kalmia, bog laurel, kalmia polifolia, swamp laurel, kalmia angustifolia, lambkill, pig laurel, sheep laurel

is a kind of bush, shrub

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CIDE DICTIONARY

kalmia, n. [NL. Named in honor of Peter Kalm, a Swedish botanist.].

A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

kalmia, n. a N. American evergreen shrub of the genus Kalmia, esp. K. latifolia, with showy pink flowers.

Etymology

mod.L f. P. Kalm, Sw. botanist d. 1779

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