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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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

Upright flowering plants,--Abutilons, browallias, calceolaria "Lincoln Park," begonias, bouvardias, euphorbias, scarlet sage, richardia or calla, heliotropes, fuchsias, Chinese hibiscus, jasmines, single petunias, swainsona, billbergia, freesias, geraniums, eupheas.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

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 Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)