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Dahlia

2 stages from Swedish to English.

Today it means a garden plant with large, colorful, many-petaled flowers
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Anders Dahl
Swedish · 1700s
"a botanist's name"
a Swedish botanist honored in the name of the vividly flowering plant
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dahlia
English · 1804
"a colorful, many-petaled garden flower"
adopted directly for the colorful garden flower named after the botanist
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