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Calceolaria   Listen
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calceolaria  n.  (Bot.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Calceolaria" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vinca minor. Atropa Belladonna. *Solanum Lycopersicum! *Petunia violacea! Galeopsis ochroleuca. Betonica alopecuros. *Digitalis purpurea! *Antirrhinum majus! *Linaria purpurea! *Pedicularis sylvatica! *Calceolaria var. hort.! Scrophularia nodosa. Salpiglossis straminea. Streptocarpus Rexii. *Gesnera var. hort.! AEschynanthus sp.! Thyrsacanthus rutilans! Anagallis collina. *Primula veris! Auricula. *Primula ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters

... rows of trees, their flower-packed gardens and trim hedges. Slowly they would pace along, enjoying the sweeter air of the suburbs, or, gardenless themselves, would stand to peep through garden-gates at the well-ordered array of geranium, calceolaria, verbena; sniffing the fragrance from the serried rows of stocks, the patches of mignonette, or the ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann



Words linked to "Calceolaria" :   slipperwort, flower, genus Calceolaria



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