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Definition of Gloxinia
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers.
Specialized synonyms: Canterbury Bell, Gloxinia Perennis, Florist's Gloxinia, Gloxinia Spesiosa, Sinningia Speciosa
Generic synonyms: Houseplant
Definition of Gloxinia
1. n. American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.
Definition of Gloxinia
1. Noun. Any of several South American plants (of the genus ''Gloxinia'' or ''Sinningia'') that have showy, colourful flowers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gloxinia
1. a tropical plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gloxinia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloxinia
Literary usage of Gloxinia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"It has the habit of a garden gloxinia, .with inclined fls. of fair size, ...
The foliage is recorded as more nearly that of a gloxinia than a gesneria in ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Name given to hybrids of gloxinia (Sinningia) and Gesneria. See gloxinia.
gloxinia, The genus gloxinia was founded by L'Héritier in 1785(named in ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The plants cultivated in hothouses under the name of gloxinia belong to the
closely related genus Sinningia, and aré natives of Brazil. ..."
4. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"... of its individual members, for instance of gloxinia, the normal flowers of
which are irregular and pendent, there is now in common cultivation a ..."
5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1853)
"It flowers very early from the seed, and if hardy in our climate will be a distinct
and splendid species. (Bot. Mag., June.) 215. gloxinia WILSONI. MR. ..."
6. The British Florist: Or, Lady's Journal of Horticulture (1846)
"EXPERIMENT ON THE gloxinia. TO THE EDITOR OF THE FLORIST'S JOURNAL. ... The gloxinia,
in the natural arrangement, occupies a place in the order ..."
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