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Gloriosa

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Glo`ri`o´sa
n.1.(Bot.) A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.
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Noun1.Gloriosagloriosa - any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous
climbing lily, creeping lily, Gloriosa superba, glory lily
genus Gloriosa - sometimes placed in family Colchicaceae; one species: glory lily
poisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism


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Alberto Castellano's Rosario della gloriosa Vergine Maria appeared in Venice first in 1521 and thereafter in several editions (1534, 1566, 1567).
Federico Barocci, Federico Borromeo, and the Oratorian Orbit * by Verstegen, Ian / Renaissance Quarterly
Las colocaciones privadas tienen una larga y gloriosa historia, ya que en las ultimas decadas han producido rendimientos de dos digitos.
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In large whiskey barrels, all along the sun-soaked edge of the portico, clumps of burnt-orange gloriosa daisies (Rudbeckia hirta) are in full flower.
CULTIVATING A CRUSH ON AN ORANGE GARDEN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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