faucaria

[ faw-kair-ee-uh ]

noun
  1. any succulent plant of the genus Faucaria, comprising several species native to southern Africa and having solitary yellow or white flowers.

Origin of faucaria

1
<New Latin (1926), perhaps equivalent to Latin fauc(ēs) throat, narrow passage + -āria-aria

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