Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Calceolaria: so called from the form of the lower lip of the corolla.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
calceolaria .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
plants of thegenus Calceolaria, usually with orange or yellowflowers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
Etymologies
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slipper + wort
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