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Definition: Calla |
CallaNoun1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix. 2. Water arum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Calla \Cal"la\, noun. [Linn[ae]us derived Calla from Greek cock's wattes but compare to Latin calla, calsa, name of an unknown plant, and Greek beautiful.]. (references) |
Synonyms: CallaSynonyms: arum lily (n), calla lily (n), genus Calla (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Calla |
| English words defined with "calla": Araceae, arum family ♦ family Araceae ♦ genus Zantedeschia ♦ pink calla ♦ Zantedeschia, Zantedeschia rehmanii. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "calla": Leukemia, CALLA-Positive ♦ Neprilysin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "calla": Caul. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Calla" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (calla). |
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Screenplays | The calla lilies are in bloom again (Stage Door; writing credit: Edna Ferber; George S. Kaufman) At the wake, I want on both sides of her Calla lilies (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Si se calla el cantor (1973) | |
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| "Wet calla leaf" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "After the rain." |
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| "Calla" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Calla" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "calla": black calla ♦ calla lily ♦ calla palustris ♦ genus Calla ♦ golden calla ♦ Mc Calla ♦ pink calla ♦ wild calla. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "calla": calla-lily. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "calla"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | кала (calla-lily). (various references) | |
Danish | kærmysse (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla). (various references) | |
Dutch | slangewortel (bog arum). (various references) | |
Finnish | vehka (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla). (various references) | |
French | calle des marais (wild calla). (various references) | |
German | Sumpf-Drachenwurz (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla), Sumpf-Calla (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla), Schlangenkraut (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla). (various references) | |
Greek | κάλλα η ελοχαρής (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla). (various references) | |
Italian | calla. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 海芋 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいう (whirlwinds accompanied by rain which also drops strange objects such as fish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allacay.(various references) | |
Romanian | calã (belly, hold). (various references) | |
Spanish | aro palustre. (various references) | |
Swedish | missne (dragonwort, waterarum, wild calla). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Calla palustris L.. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "calla": callable, callaloo, callaloos, callan, callans, callant, callants, callas. (additional references) | |
Words containing "calla": noncallable, recallabilities, recallability, recallable. (additional references) | |
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"Calla" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acla, Caillau, caillaux, cala, calaa, Calam, Calan, calax, cald, Calea, Calha, callad, callaly, Callam, callar, callay, callee, callen, Calli, callic, callip, callit, calloo, callsat, callum, cally, calva, carlfa, caulli, Cawla, Cayla, cela, Celal, Cellan, cfla, Chala, challa, cila, Clellan, collah, Collam, Cylla, dalla, Jalla, Kalalah, Kalla, Kallab, kallah, Kallu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "calla" (pronounced ka"lu) |
| 3 | -a" l u | gala. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-l" | |
-1 letter: call. | |
-2 letters: aal, ala, all, lac. | |
-3 letters: aa, al, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-l" | |
+1 letter: callan, callas, challa, laical. | |
+2 letters: alcalde, alkalic, ancilla, callans, callant, canella, catcall, catfall, cavalla, cavally, challah, challas, clausal, cloacal, fallacy, glacial, lacteal, lacunal. | |
+3 letters: achillea, actually, agalloch, alcaldes, alliance, allocate, alogical, ancillae, ancillas, apically, bacillar, balladic, caballed, cabrilla, caecally, calendal, caliphal, callable, callaloo, callants, callback, calyceal, camellia, canaille, canalled, canaller, canellas, carnally, carryall, casually, catcalls, catchall, catfalls, caudally, causally, cavallas, chalazal, challahs, climatal, facially, fallback, gallican, heliacal, lacrimal, lacteals, laically, palladic, placable, placably, rachilla, racially, rascally, scalable, scalably. | |
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