torenia

[ tuh-ree-nee-uh, -reen-yuh ]

noun

1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Torenia, of the figwort family, native to Africa and Asia, having two-lipped, usually blue or purple flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of torenia¹

< New Latin (Linnaeus), after Olof Torén (1718–53), chaplain to the Swedish East India Company; -ia

Example Sentences

He has tried to add genes from gentian that modify the delphinidin and genes from the genus Torenia that produce copigments.

From Science Magazine

The internodal parts will not often divide so as to form separate individual plants; sometimes, however, this happens; it is said that the smallest piece of Torenia asiatica, for instance, will grow.

From Project Gutenberg

Anthistiria arundinacea, the same Sambucus found at Suddya, Solanum 10 dentatum, a Kydia and Torenia continue.

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I observed Calamus, and Torenia asiatica. 

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Torenia.—These stove and greenhouse plants require a rich soil.

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