DAHLIA Synonyms

• reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• produce or yield flowers

• develop or come to a promising stage

• (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth

• any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl

• a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

• reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• produce or yield flowers

• the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

• the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk

• any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

• any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers

• part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored

• any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

• pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

• a dusty pink color

• of something having a dusty purplish pink color

• any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays

• any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower

• any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia