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Any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
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''For the junior homonym Calceolaria Heist. ex Fabr. , see Cypripedium .'' Calceolaria , also called lady's purse , slipper flower and pocketbook flower , or slipperwort , is a genus of plants in the Calceolariaceae family, sometimes classified in Scrophulariaceae ...
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n. any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip [syn: slipperwort ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
calceolaria \cal`ce*o*la"ri*a\ (k[a^]l`s[-e]*[-o]*l[=a]"r[i^]*[.a]), n. [NL., fr. L. calceolarius shoemaker, fr. calceolus, a dim. of calceus shoe.] (Bot.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a ...
Usage examples of calceolaria.
The wide lawns about it smiled in the sunshine, bright with Victorian gardening: geraniums, calceolaria, lobelia.
There they sat while the scarlet geraniums and the yellow calceolarias blazed in the sunlight.
He loved fantastically shaped beds and geometrical patterns, and geraniums and lobelias and calceolarias were still dear to his antiquated soul.
The wide lawns about it smiled in the sunshine, bright with Victorian gardening: geraniums, calceolaria, lobelia.
For instance, Herbert asserts that a hybrid from Calceolaria integrifolia and plantaginea, species most widely dissimilar in general habit, 'reproduced itself as perfectly as if it had been a natural species from the mountains of Chile.
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Every flowerbed was packed with serried clashing ranks of French marigolds, yellow calceolaria, royal-blue cineraria, flaming-red geraniums, billiard-ball pink zinnias and mauve asters.
Heath Hall had a craggy range of rock garden and a Dutch garden and an Italian rose garden and what its maker might have meant for a Japanese garden, and arbours and pergolas and statues spattered among them, and, farther on, borders of lilies and perennials led up to carpet bedding and beds of geraniums and calceolarias.