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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of calceolaria¹

C18: from Latin calceolus small shoe, from calceus

Example Sentences

I find I have spoken somewhat despitefully of the Coleus, Lobelia, and Calceolaria, so I hasten to say that I do not include the Geranium with them.

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I never liked the Calceolaria.

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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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Scrophularia, skrof-ū-lā′ri-a, n. the figwort genus of herbs, type of the Scrophulariace� or Scrophularine�, a natural order containing almost 2000 known species, chiefly herbaceous and half-shrubby plants—Digitalis or Fox-glove, Calceolaria, Mimulus, Antirrhinum or Snap-dragon, Veronica or Speedwell, and Euphrasia or Eye-bright, &c.

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Calceolaria, kal-se-o-lā′ri-a, n. a South American genus of Scrophulariace�, largely cultivated as half-hardy or greenhouse plants for the beauty and variety in colour of the two-lipped slipper-like flowers.

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