Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous plants in the tropical genus Heliconia, often cultivated for their showy inflorescences with bright red, orange, or yellow bracts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Heliconius . - noun A genus of monocotyledonous plants founded by Linnæus in 1767, belonging to the natural order Musacæ, and characterized by free sepals, short corolla-tube, and ovary-cells having one ovule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of
genus Heliconia offlowering plants .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I'm a banana and heliconia lover and wondering if there are good nurseries that offer variety in such tropical plants in BCN.
Good tropical plant nurseries with variety in northern Baja? 2009
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Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the coffee tree, swamp lily and heliconia .... read more flora
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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I'm a banana and heliconia lover and wondering if there are good nurseries that offer variety in such tropical plants in BCN.
Good tropical plant nurseries with variety in northern Baja? 2009
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Her mistress, the lover of books and words, enjoyed the garden the most, sitting on the marble seat, admiring the green-blue-brown scenery with the simulated breeze stirring the bodhi leaves and crab-claw red heliconia.
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Fragrant orchids, gum trees, ferns, heliconia and climbing palms provide camouflage for humming birds and the ever-squawking and once nearly extinct Saint Lucian Parrot.
Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island Dwight Brown 2011
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Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the coffee tree, swamp lily and heliconia .... read more flora
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the coffee tree, swamp lily and heliconia .... read more flora
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Coffee, swamp lily and heliconia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico by
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Coffee, swamp lily and heliconia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico by
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Fragrant orchids, gum trees, ferns, heliconia and climbing palms provide camouflage for humming birds and the ever-squawking and once nearly extinct Saint Lucian Parrot.
Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island Dwight Brown 2011
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