Meaning & use
dahlia
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a garden plant with large, brightly colored, often multi-petaled flowers, native to Mexico and Central America.
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The gardener planted a row of dahlias along the fence for autumn color.
Her wedding bouquet was made almost entirely of deep red dahlias.
A note on using this word
Named after the eighteenth-century botanist Anders Dahl, though the word itself is now an ordinary lowercase common noun.
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