heliconia

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heliconia

/ˌhɛlɪˈkəʊ.ni.ə/ UK
/ˌhɛlɪˈkoʊ.ni.ə/ US

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Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Heliconia.

noun heliconias

Any of the genus Heliconia of flowering plants. Royal palms flank a long rectangular pool, a great fallen tree forms a bridge across the water, and heliconias bloom among the elephant ears and banana shrubs.

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noun Heliconia genus plant

中文	赫蕉 hèjiāo
Português	helicônia
Ελληνικά	ελικόνια elikónia
Русский	гелико́ния gelikónija

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"heliconia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/heliconia. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"heliconia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/heliconia.

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@misc{heliconia_2026,
  title = {heliconia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heliconia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}