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kohleria

noun

shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers

• Hypernyms: ↑houseplant

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Kohleria

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\\kōˈlirēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Michael Kohler, 19th century Swiss naturalist + New Latin -ia

: a genus of rhizomatous often shrubby tropical American herbs (family Gesneriaceae) that are widely cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy often scarlet flowers with four or five stamens and partly inferior ovary

Useful english dictionary. 2012.