gloxinia

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gloxinia has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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

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