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 .

Origin of calceolaria

1840–50; <New Latin, equivalent to Latin calceol(us) small shoe (calce(us) shoe + -olus-ole¹) + -āria-aria

Words nearby calceolaria

calcareous, calcareous tufa, calcariferous, 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!
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
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 Pain
Every 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 Earle
Suppression 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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