calceolaria
any plant of the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, various species of which are cultivated for their slipperlike flowers.
Origin of calceolaria
1- Also called slipper flower .
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How to use calceolaria in a sentence
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.
The New Gulliver and Other Stories | Barry PainEvery child in our town used to have a calceolaria in her own small garden plot, but I never wanted one.
Old-Time Gardens | Alice Morse EarleSuppression of the upper lip in such flowers as calceolaria has been termed by Morren "apilary."
Vegetable Teratology | Maxwell T. Masters
British Dictionary definitions for calceolaria
/ (ˌkælsɪəˈlɛərɪə) /
any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers: Also called: slipperwort
Origin of calceolaria
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