columnea

[ kuh-luhm-nee-uh ]

/ kəˈlʌm ni ə /

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noun

any of various vines or shrubs of the genus Columnea, native to tropical America, that have tubular, showy, two-lipped flowers and are often cultivated as houseplants.

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Origin of columnea

<New Latin (Linnaeus), equivalent to column(a), Latinized form of Fabio Colonna (1567–ca. 1640), Italian writer on plants + -ea-ea

Words nearby columnea

columnar epithelium, columnarized, columnar jointing, column chromatography, column dress, columnea, columniation, column inch, columnist, column of fornix, column vector

How to use columnea in a sentence

Trevirana or Achimenes, and Columnea, are removed to Gesneriace.
Botany for Ladies|Jane Loudon