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calico flower

noun

  1. a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of calico flower1

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
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Example Sentences

The monumental blossom in O’Keeffe’s “White Calico Flower” of 1931 seems about to burst from its frame, while a wall of four of Hartley’s late landscapes, with their robust surfaces and poetic undercurrents, is one of the show’s high points.

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