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calla

cal.la \'kal-*\ n [NL, genus name, modif. of Gk kallaia rooster's wattles] 
   : a familiar house or greenhouse plant (Zantedeschia aethiopica) of  the 
   arum family with a white showy spathe and yellow spadix; also : a plant 
   resembling this