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

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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

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

From The Sunny Side by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

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 Sir Owen Seaman

These old straggling bushes must come up; we’ll have new plants from a nursery-garden, and fill those beds with geraniums, fuchsias, and calceolaria.

From The Haunted Room A Tale by A. L. O. E.

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.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain

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