HyperDic: genus_calceolaria

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Calceolaria:
NOUNplantgenus Calceolarialarge genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers
English > genus Calceolaria: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninglarge genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers.
Member ofScrophulariaceae, family Scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove familyA family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales
Memberscalceolaria, slipperwortAny garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip
Broaderasterid dicot genusgenus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
Spanishgenus calceolaria
Catalangenus calceolaria

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