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A dahlia is a garden flower with a large, round, often very bright head — red, pink, orange, purple, yellow, white. Some look like pompoms, some like little waterlilies. They bloom in late summer and autumn, not with the first of spring. like them because the colour is bold and the heads can be huge. The name is also used as a girl's name, taken from the flower. Ordinary garden English. It is not the Indian dish dahl; that is a different word with a different story.
大麗花
組成Named in 1791 after Anders Dahl, a Swedish botanist, by the Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles. So dahlia is “Dahl’s flower,” not a word that splits into English pieces.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dahlianame
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A female given name from English.
- The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.
- He was afraid that Delia or Della might mention a cousin named Dahlia, and he would laugh. Sweet Jesus, do not let me laugh inappropriately.
dahlianoun/ˈdeɪ.li.ə/
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Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。