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n. Any of several plants of the genus Dahlia native to the mountains of Mexico, Central America, and Colombia, having tuberous roots and showy, rayed, variously colored flower heads.

n. The flower head of one of these plants.

n. Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

n. A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositæ; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.

n. A genus of plants, natural order Compositæ, of which several species are known, all natives of Mexico and Central America.

n. [lowercase] A plant of the genus Dahlia.

n. [lowercase] In dyeing, a violet coal-tar color consisting of the ethyl and methyl derivatives of rosaniline.

n. any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia

"The term "dahlia" is used for the first time in 1791, when Cavanilles publishes Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum."

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