echeveria

[ ech-uh-vuh-ree-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of numerous succulent plants of the genus Echeveria, native to tropical America and having thick leaves characteristically forming rosettes.

echeveria

/ ˌɛtʃɪˈvɪərɪə /

any of various tropical American crassulaceous plants of the genus Echeveria, cultivated for their colourful foliage

< New Latin (1828), named after Atanasio Echeverría (flourished 1771), Mexican botanical illustrator

named after M. Echeveri, 19th-century Mexican botanical artist

The name Echeveria is now given up by botanists for Cotyledon.

Zara de Echeveria needed no adornment to emphasize the attractions of her gorgeous self.

Zara de Echeveria, Alexis Saberevski informs you now that he knows you to be high in the councils of the nihilists.

There are seeming paradoxes which will explain just what my conclusions were concerning Zara de Echeveria.

But I was conscious of a subtle change in the character of my feelings towards Zara de Echeveria.

April 25, 2024firkin

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