Dahlia

(noun.) 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.

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• Miss Sedley was not of the sunflower sort; and I say it is out of the rules of all proportion to draw a violet of the size of a double dahlia. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• No one would ever expect to get a first-rate heartsease or dahlia from the seed of a wild plant. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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