caladium

plural caladiums

1. Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants, especially an ornamental cultivar of Caladium bicolor.

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

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

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   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.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 37