Kalmia Definition

kalmēə
noun
Any of a genus (Kalmia) of North American evergreen shrubs of the heath family, as the mountain laurel, with flowers of white or rose.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the tribe Phyllodoceae — the mountain laurel and related trees.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Kalmia

Noun

Singular:
kalmia
Plural:
kalmias

Origin of Kalmia

  • New Latin From Kalm +‎ -ia, after the Finnish botanist Pehr Kalm.

    From Wiktionary

Kalmia Sentence Examples

  • Many flowering and fruit-bearing shrubs of the heath family add to the beauty of the mountainous districts, rhododendron and kalmia often forming impenetrable thickets.

  • The Myrtle-leaved Kalmia (K. myrtifolia) seems to be only a variety of K. latifolia, with smaller Myrtle-like foliage.

  • The other species of Kalmia, though very beautiful, are of less value, because they are smaller, more delicate, and less showy, but in peat-soil gardens they should be grown.

  • Chamacistus, which has tiny leaves, and in early summer exquisite purple flowers, of the same size as those of Kalmia latifolia.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

AIAMIA

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