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calceolaria

[ kal-see-uh-lair-ee-uh ]

noun

  1. any plant of the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, various species of which are cultivated for their slipperlike flowers.


calceolaria

/ ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə /

noun

  1. any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers Also calledslipperwort
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of calceolaria1

1840–50; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin calceol ( us ) small shoe ( calce ( us ) shoe + -olus -ole 1 ) + -āria -aria
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Word History and Origins

Origin of calceolaria1

C18: from Latin calceolus small shoe, from calceus
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Example Sentences

Advancing further on my onward course, how joyfully I greeted as old acquaintance the purple gentiana and the brown calceolaria!

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.

Every child in our town used to have a Calceolaria in her own small garden plot, but I never wanted one.

Suppression of the upper lip in such flowers as Calceolaria has been termed by Morren "apilary."

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