gloxinia

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gloxinia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gloxinia \Glox*in"i*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
     American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome
     bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German
     botanist.
     [1913 Webster]

gloxinia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gloxinia
      n 1: any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia
           (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers