Stre·litz·i·a n. Bot. A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.
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Strelitzia
n : small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves
resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in
family Musaceae [syn: genus Strelitzia]