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Definition of gloxinia in English: gloxinianoun ɡlɒkˈsɪnɪəɡlɑkˈsɪniə A tropical American plant with large, velvety, bell-shaped flowers. Genera Gloxinia and Sinningia, family Gesneriaceae: several species, in particular the florists' gloxinia (S. speciosa), which is a popular houseplant Example sentencesExamples - African violets, gloxinias and achimenes are beautiful when in bloom, but pretty dull otherwise.
- Start begonias, caladiums, callas, cannas, dahlias, gladiolus, and hardy gloxinias in pots indoors on a sunny windowsill.
- Usually a gloxinia can be kept as an indoor plant, but the ones from seed do not have the strength to grow another year.
- Some of my favorite windowsill plants include many varieties of trailing ivy, African violets, primroses, pansies and violets, geraniums, gloxinias, cyclamens, coleus, kalonchoes, peperomias, and heartleaf philodendrons.
- Temperate flowers such as gloxinia, tuberous rooted begonia, altromaria and liluims will be showcased.
Origin Modern Latin, named after Benjamin P. Gloxin, the 18th-century German botanist who first described it. Rhymes Abyssinia, Bithynia, curvilinear, Gdynia, interlinear, Lavinia, linear, rectilinear, Sardinia, triclinia, Virginia, zinnia Definition of gloxinia in US English: gloxinianounɡlɑkˈsɪniəɡläkˈsinēə A tropical American plant with large, velvety, bell-shaped flowers. Genera Gloxinia and Sinningia, family Gesneriaceae: several species, in particular the florists' gloxinia (S. speciosa), which is a popular houseplant Example sentencesExamples - Start begonias, caladiums, callas, cannas, dahlias, gladiolus, and hardy gloxinias in pots indoors on a sunny windowsill.
- Usually a gloxinia can be kept as an indoor plant, but the ones from seed do not have the strength to grow another year.
- Temperate flowers such as gloxinia, tuberous rooted begonia, altromaria and liluims will be showcased.
- Some of my favorite windowsill plants include many varieties of trailing ivy, African violets, primroses, pansies and violets, geraniums, gloxinias, cyclamens, coleus, kalonchoes, peperomias, and heartleaf philodendrons.
- African violets, gloxinias and achimenes are beautiful when in bloom, but pretty dull otherwise.
Origin Modern Latin, named after Benjamin P. Gloxin, the 18th-century German botanist who first described it. |