saintpaulia

/ səntˈpɔːlɪə /

noun

1. another name for African violet

Word History and Origins

Origin of saintpaulia¹

C20: New Latin, named after Baron W. von Saint Paul, German soldier (died 1910), who discovered it

Example Sentences

Saintpaulia makes a beautiful table ornament, and a row of pot plants in full bloom forms a charming margin in conservatories, either for a stage or on the ground.

From Project Gutenberg

Saintpaulia Ionantha.—The leaves of this plant spread themselves laterally just over the soil, forming a rosette, in the centre of which spring up large violet-like flowers.

From Project Gutenberg

In Exacum and in Saintpaulia the flowers are dimorphic in this sense: the style projects to either the right or the left side of the corolla, from which it follows that a right-handed flower would fertilise a left-handed one, and vice versa.

From Project Gutenberg