alstroemeria

Borrowed from translingual Alstroemeria.

• IPA^(key): /ˌælstɹiˈmiːɹɪ.ə/

alstroemeria (countable and uncountable, plural alstroemerias)

1. Any member of the genus Alstroemeria of South American flowering plants, the Peruvian lilies.
   • 2007 February 20, Ellen Barry, “Eagerness and Some Resignation as Civil Union Law Takes Effect”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Now they were doing it again: Waiting, with a bouquet of alstroemeria and purple tulips, for Asbury Park’s deputy city clerk, D. Kiki Tomek, to take their application for a civil union in New Jersey .