STRELITZIA
\stɹɛlˈɪtsi͡ə], \stɹɛlˈɪtsiə], \s_t_ɹ_ɛ_l_ˈɪ_t_s_iə]\
Definitions of STRELITZIA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
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A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.
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strel-it'si-a, n. a genus of South African plants of the banana family, with large showy flowers--Strelitzia Reginæ, also Queen-plant, Bird-of-Paradise flower--with fine orange and purple flowers. [From Queen Charlotte, wife of George III., of the house of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.]
By Thomas Davidson
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