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calceolaria

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cal·ce·o·lar·i·a  (kls--lâr-)
n.
Any of various plants of the genus Calceolaria native from Mexico to South America and widely cultivated for their showy, speckled, slipper-shaped flowers. Also called slipper flower, slipperwort.
[New Latin Calceolria, genus name, from Latin calceolus, small shoe; see calceolate.]
calceolaria [ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers Also called slipperwort
[from Latin calceolus small shoe, from calceus]
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Noun1.calceolariacalceolaria - any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
slipperwort
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
genus Calceolaria - large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers


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For instance, Herbert asserts that a hybrid from Calceolaria integrifolia and plantaginea, species most widely dissimilar in general habit, 'reproduced itself as perfectly as if it had been a natural species from the mountains of Chile.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
Tight beds of geranium, calceolaria, and lobelia speckled the glass-plat, from whose centre rose one of the finest araucarias(its other name by the way is "monkey-puzzler"), that it has ever been my lot to see.
Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Shoot in a rose, or a calceolaria, or an herbaceous border, or something, I gather, and you have made a formal proposal of marriage without any of the trouble of rehearsing a long speech and practising appropriate gestures in front of your bedroom looking-glass.
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