释义 |
gloxinia /ɡlɒkˈsɪnɪə /nounA 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.
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....- Usually a gloxinia can be kept as an indoor plant, but the ones from seed do not have the strength to grow another year.
- 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. Rhymes Abyssinia, Bithynia, curvilinear, Gdynia, interlinear, Lavinia, linear, rectilinear, Sardinia, triclinia, Virginia, zinnia |