单词 | columnea |
释义 | columnea in British English (kəˈlʌmnɪə) noun any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves columnea in American English (kəˈlʌmniə) noun any of various vines or shrubs of the genus Columnea, native to tropical America, that have tubular, showy, two-lipped flowers and are often cultivated as houseplants Word origin [‹ NL (Linnaeus), equiv. to column(a), Latinized form of Fabio Colonna (1567–ca. 1640), Italian writer on plants + -ea -ea]-ea is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin. Other words that use the affix -ea include: chamaedorea, cuphea, elodea, zoea |
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