anthurium

plural anthuriums · plural anthuria

1. Any of several tropical American evergreen plants, of the genus Anthurium, grown for their ornamental leaves and spathes.

   A huge vase of scarlet anthuria and poinsettias, arranged with ferns, stood in the center.

   1943, Alice Northrop Snow, The Story of Helen Gould, Daughter of Jay Gould, Great American, volume 1, New York, N.Y.; London; Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, page 124

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   He can already smell the anthuria and imagine the confetti of butterfly wings on his cheeks.

   2008, Randall Peffer, Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea, Bleak House Books, →ISBN, page 204

   The first thing I see is a sympathy bouquet from the Dean of New College—white roses, anthuria and orchids in a crystal vase next to the sink.

   2019, Helen Marshall, The Migration, Titan Books, →ISBN

   They gather the bouquets — pink gingers, yellow tiger lilies and white anthuriums they cut from the garden in the hills — and she follow him to a grave with a shiny new headstone.

   2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 271

   Synonyms: tailflower, flamingo flower, pigtail