anthurium
See also: Anthurium
English

anthurium
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
anthurium (plural anthuriums)
- Any of several tropical American evergreen plants, of the genus Anthurium, grown for their ornamental leaves and spathes.
- 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 271:
- They gather the bouquets — pink gingers, yellow tiger lilies and white anthuriums they cut from the garden in the hills — and she follow him to a grave with a shiny new headstone.
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Synonyms
- (plants in Anthurium): tailflower, flamingo flower, pigtail
Translations
flower of the genus Anthurium
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