Translingual

Kalmia latifolia

Proper noun

Kalmia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – the mountain laurel and related trees.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Kalmia angustifolia - sheep laurel, lambkill; Kalmia carolina - Carolina mountain laurel; Kalmia cuneata - whitewicky; Kalmia ericoides - Cuban kalmia; Kalmia hirsuta - hairy mountain laurel; Kalmia latifolia - mountain laurel, lambkill; Kalmia polifolia - bog kalmia, bog laurel; Kalmia microphylla - alpine bog laurel, alpine mountain laurel - selected species

Derived terms

• Kalmiopsis

English

Noun

kalmia ‎(plural kalmias)

1. Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.
   • 1849, James Thomas Fields, Children in Exile in Poems,

     Far in the dark old forest glades, / Where kalmias bloom around, / They had their place of youthful sport, / Their childhood's hunting-ground,— ...

   • 1918, John Muir, Steep Trails,

     Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea.

Anagrams

• Kalami
• kalima
• Malika