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Calceolaria

noun
1.
Any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip.  Synonym: slipperwort.



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"Calceolaria" Quotes from Famous Books



... cry. Why not flowers—fresh, fair, fragrant flowers? You can do a lot with flowers. Girls love them. There is poetry in them. And, what is more, there is a recognized language of flowers. Shoot in a rose, or a calceolaria, or an herbaceous border, or something, I gather, and you have made a formal proposal of marriage without any of the trouble of rehearsing a long speech and practising appropriate gestures in front of your bedroom looking-glass. Why, then, did not ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse



Words linked to "Calceolaria" :   flower, slipperwort



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