Definitions for kalmias

kalmias kal·mi·a

Spelling: [kal-mee-uh]
IPA: /ˈkæl mi ə/

Kalmias is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in kalmias (aaiklms).

Definitions for kalmias

noun

  1. any North American evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Kalmia, of the heath family, having showy flowers, as the mountain laurel.

Origin of kalmias

New Latin (Linnaeus), after Peter Kalm (1715-79), Swedish botanist; see -ia

Examples for kalmias

kalmia, the beautiful mountain laurel, immortalizes the name of the devoted explorer who discovered it.

Kalm was a student of Linnaeus and the great botanist perpetuated his memory by naming our beautiful mountain laurel, kalmia.

The kalmia and the alder gave undergrowth and brilliancy to the foliage.

Rhododendrons have strong and scaly winter-buds; while in kalmia they are naked.

Many vegetable petrifactions, such as fern and leaves of the kalmia, are found in the slate between the veins of coal.

The kalmia latifolia, too, grew to the height of eight or ten feet.

There are several kinds of kalmia, almost all of eastern North America, the flowers alike in form.

I put off the examination of the kalmia latifolia till the day after.

He replied, 'Madam, the kalmia has precisely the colours of a seraph's wing.'

kalmia latifolia, L. (calico bush or ivy bush of North America).

Word Value for kalmias
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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