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gloxinia

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

gloxinia(n = noun.plant) - any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers;

has particulars: canterbury bell, gloxinia perennis, florist's gloxinia, gloxinia spesiosa, sinningia speciosa

is a kind of houseplant

gloxinia, n. [NL.].

American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist. [1913 Webster]

gloxinia, n. any tropical plant of the genus Gloxinia, native to S. America, with large bell flowers of various colours.

Etymology

mod.L f. B. P. Gloxin, 18th-c. Ger. botanist