funkia
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See also: Funkia
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the genus name.
Noun[edit]
funkia (plural funkias)
- Any of the plants of the genus Funkia (now Hosta).
- 1997, Louise Beebe Wilder, What Happens in My Garden, page 129:
- The funkias, or plantain lilies, as they are called because of their broad ribbed foliage, are as Victorian as antimacassars or chaperons; but there is about them a certain dignity and civility often characteristic of the properties of the Victorian Age […]
