kalmia
See also: Kalmia
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from translingual Kalmia, from Swedish Kalm + translingual -ia, equivalent to Kalm + -ia.
Noun
editkalmia (plural kalmias)
- Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.
- 1849, James Thomas Fields, “Children in Exile”, in Poems:
- Far in the dark old forest glades, / Where kalmias bloom around, / They had their place of youthful sport, / Their childhood's hunting-ground,— ...
- 1918, John Muir, Steep Trails:
- Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea.