单词 | ceropegia |
释义 | ceropegia in American English (ˌsɪərəˈpidʒiə, -dʒə) noun any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants Word origin [‹ NL (Linnaeus) ‹ Gk kēro- cero- + NL -pegia, perh. ‹ Gk -pēgia, n. deriv. of pēgnýnai to stick in, fix in; perh. to be taken as “candle holder”; cf. Linnaeus' specificname candelabrum] |
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