名詞 calla:

1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
   同義詞：calla lily, arum lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica
2. water arum
   同義詞：genus Calla

1. Did you ever hear Maria Callas sing?
   你聽過瑪麗亞卡萊斯唱歌嗎？

cal.la

n.（名詞）
A calla lily.
馬蹄蓮
A marsh plant(Calla palustris) of the North Temperate zone, having small, densely clustered, greenish flowers partly enclosed in a spreading white spathe. Also called In this sense, also called water arum
水芋：生于北溫帶的一種沼澤植物（水芋 水芋屬） ，長(zhǎng)有小的、緊簇的、部分包在伸展的白色花苞內(nèi)的淺綠色花朵 也作 在此意義上也可稱作 water arum

來(lái)源：
New Latin Calla [genus name]
現(xiàn)代拉丁語(yǔ) Calla [屬名]
from Greek kallaia [wattle of a cock]
源自 希臘語(yǔ) kallaia [雞尾]
perhaps from kallos [beauty]
可能源自 kallos [美麗]