Adelia (disambiguation) explained

Adelia is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, subfamily Acalyphoideae.

Adelia or Adélia may also refer to:

Given name

• Adelia Aguilar, fictional medieval pathologist in books written by Diana Norman under the pen name Ariana Franklin
• Adelia Pope Branham (1861–1917), American writer
• Adelia Di Carlo (1883–1965), Argentine writer, chronicler, founder
• Adelia Sarah Gates (1825–1912), American illustrator of botanical specimens
• Adelia Cleopatra Graves (1821–1895), American poet
• Adelia Field Johnston (1837–1910), American college professor, dean
• Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, the first woman Diocesan Bishop in the Episcopal Church
• Adélia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poet
• Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (1830–1923), naturalist and correspondent with Charles Darwin

Other

• Adelia (opera), an 1841 opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti
• Adelia (cicada), a genus of cicadas

Places

• Santa Adélia, municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
• Adelia Land, claimed territory in the continent of Antarctica

See also

• Adela (disambiguation)
• Adeli (disambiguation)
• Adelieae, a tribe of the subfamily Acalyphoideae
• Adelina (disambiguation)
• Adelita (disambiguation)
• Delia (disambiguation)