Definition of Genus Calceolaria

1. Noun. Large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Calceolaria

genus Cacicus
genus Cadra
genus Caenolestes
genus Caesalpinia
genus Caiman
genus Cairina
genus Cajanus
genus Cakile
genus Caladenia
genus Caladium
genus Calamagrostis
genus Calamintha
genus Calamus
genus Calandrinia
genus Calanthe
genus Calceolaria (current term)
genus Calendula
genus Calidris
genus Calla
genus Calliandra
genus Callicebus
genus Callimorpha
genus Callinectes
genus Calliophis
genus Calliphora
genus Callirhoe
genus Callisaurus
genus Callistephus
genus Callithrix
genus Callitriche

Literary usage of Genus Calceolaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus Calceolaria CALCEOLARIA (Latin, calceolus, a little shoe, in reference to form of flower, but it appears probable that Linnaeus shot two birds with ..."

2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1836)
"V. Some Remarks on the Cultivation of the genus Calceolaria. By the CONDUCTORS. THIS truly splendid genus of plants does not seem to be so generally and ..."

3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... and the attention of the voyager who is familiar with the genus Calceolaria only In the conservatories of Britain, must be attracted by Its appearance ..."

4. Amaryllidaceae: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous by William Herbert (1837)
"The genus Calceolaria embraces plants very dissimilar to the eye of the botanist, as well as of the unlearned observer, of which some are absolutely stem- ..."

5. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1913)
"... the confinement of the genus Rosa to the northern and of the genus Calceolaria to the southern hemisphere — these and numberless other kindred facts ..."

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