caladium

Borrowed from translingual Caladium.

caladium (plural caladiums)

1. Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants, especially an ornamental cultivar of Caladium bicolor.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 37:

     The vegetation was most luxuriant, comprising enormous forest trees, as well as a variety of ferns, caladiums, and other undergrowth, and abundance of climbing rattan palms.

   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 46:

     And everywhere Dominican girls in tight-fitting rayon hung heavy in doorways lined with caladium.

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caladium m (plural caladiums)

1. caladium