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Definition of Calceolaria
1. Noun. Any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip.
Definition of Calceolaria
1. n. A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calceolaria
Literary usage of Calceolaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"... crossed plants—Effects of crossing flowers on the same plant—calceolaria ...
on species in the six following genera: Mimulus, Digitalis, calceolaria, ..."
2. The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany by George Beauchamp Knowles, Frederic Westcott (1837)
"calceolaria (Linn.) Calyx 4-partitus. Corolla bi-labiata : labium in- ... A truly
elegant variety of calceolaria, raised by John Willmore, Esq. of Oldford, ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus calceolaria calceolaria (Latin, calceolus, a little shoe, in reference ...
The first calceolaria introduced to English gardens appears to have been C. ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1827)
"Account of a new calceolaria, and of Nepenthes ... The habit of the plant is
quite that of calceolaria corymbosa, next which it should be placed, ..."
5. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1842)
"As an exemplification of this principle, we now publish a representation of a
very handsome calceolaria, which was raised by Mr. John Standish, nurseryman, ..."
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