noun
dahlia
DAY-lee-uh
noun
1
A garden plant with large, colourful, tuberous flowers, native to Mexico.
"Her prize dahlias won first place at the village flower show."
How to Use Dahlia
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA showy garden flower that grows from a tuber and blooms in late summer and autumn.
Common pairings
dahlia tubers
a bed of dahlias
Word Forms
dahlias plural
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Etymology
Named in 1791 after the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl, by the Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.