cal·ce·o·lar·i·a (k l s - -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 Calceol  ria, 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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| Noun | 1. |  calceolaria - any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lipflower - 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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