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Definition of Genus Calceolaria
1. Noun. Large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers.
Group relationships: Family Scrophulariaceae, Figwort Family, Foxglove Family, Scrophulariaceae
Member holonyms: Calceolaria, Slipperwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Calceolaria
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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