calceolaria

American  

[kal-see-uh-lair-ee-uh] / ˌkæl si əˈlɛər i ə /

noun

1. any plant of the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, various species of which are cultivated for their slipperlike flowers.

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calceolaria British  

/ ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə /

noun

1. Also called: slipperwort.  any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers

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Etymology

Origin of calceolaria

1840–50; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin calceol ( us ) small shoe ( calce ( us ) shoe + -olus -ole ¹ ) + -āria -aria

Example Sentences

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calceolaria

She has had a hybrid amaryllis and a yellow calceolaria named in her honor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vegetables seem in perfect harmony with yellow marigolds and calceolaria.

From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold

Well, of course I knows better than go for to contradict him when he gets a downer on any plant, don't matter whether it's cabbage or calceolaria.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

Then the children made forts and ditches, and brought in sprigs of geranium and calceolaria and box and yew and made trees and ambushes and hedges.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)

I haven't been so excited since I recognised a calceolaria last year, and told my host it was a calceolaria just before he told me.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir