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calceolaria
[ kal-see-uh-lair-ee-uh ]
noun
- any plant of the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, various species of which are cultivated for their slipperlike flowers.
calceolaria
/ ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə /
noun
- any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers Also calledslipperwort
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calceolaria1
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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!
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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.
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Every child in our town used to have a Calceolaria in her own small garden plot, but I never wanted one.
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Suppression of the upper lip in such flowers as Calceolaria has been termed by Morren "apilary."
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