California
ca·li·for·nia
noun
Origin
Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name may be a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”). For more information see: Etymology of California.
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- Californian
- California allspice
- California bay tree
- California beauty
- California black oak
- California black walnut
- California bluebell
- California box elder
- California buckthorn
- California buckwheat
- California coffee
- California condor
- California dandelion
- California false morel
- California fern
- California four o'clock
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