An alternate or regional spelling of aralia, the tropical plant with attractive decorative foliage.
A variant spelling of 'aralia,' reflecting different transliteration traditions when the word was borrowed from Malagasy into European languages in the 1700s.
Different European countries borrowed the Malagasy plant name slightly differently—French used 'aralie' while English standardized on 'aralia'—which is why you see both spellings in old botanical texts.
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