| Noun | 1. | genus Episcia - genus of tropical American herbs having soft hairy foliage asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs family Gesneriaceae, gesneria family, Gesneriaceae - large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales episcia - any plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers |