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calceolaria
[ kal-see-uh-lair-ee-uh ]
/ ˌkæl si əˈlɛər i ə /
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noun
any plant of the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, various species of which are cultivated for their slipperlike flowers.
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Also called slipper flower .
Words nearby calceolaria
calcarine, calcarine sulcus, calcariuria, calced, calceiform, calceolaria, calceolate, calces, Calchas, calci-, calcic
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How to use calceolaria in a sentence
Advancing further on my onward course, how joyfully I greeted as old acquaintance the purple gentiana and the brown calceolaria!
I do not think there is any man alive who could sell me a yellow calceolaria or persuade me to find room for it in my garden.
The New Gulliver and Other Stories|Barry PainEvery child in our town used to have a Calceolaria in her own small garden plot, but I never wanted one.
Old-Time Gardens|Alice Morse EarleSuppression of the upper lip in such flowers as Calceolaria has been termed by Morren "apilary."
Vegetable Teratology|Maxwell T. Masters
British Dictionary definitions for calceolaria
calceolaria
/ (ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə) /
noun
any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowersAlso called: slipperwort
Word Origin for calceolaria
C18: from Latin calceolus small shoe, from calceus
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