Definitions for Kalmia

Kalmia kal·mi·a

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

Kalmia is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Kalmia (aaiklm).

Definitions for Kalmia

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 Kalmia

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

Examples for Kalmia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for Kalmia
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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