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CALCEOLARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calceolaria mean?
• CALCEOLARIA (noun)
The noun CALCEOLARIA has 1 sense:
1. any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
Familiarity information: CALCEOLARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
calceolaria; slipperwort
Hypernyms ("calceolaria" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("calceolaria" is a member of...):
genus Calceolaria (large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers)
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