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1. (n.) gloxinia
a cultivated tropical plant, Sinningia speciosa, of the gesneria family, with hairy leaves and bell-shaped flowers.
Etymology: (1815–25; after Benjamin P. Gloxin (fl. 1785), German physician and botanist; see -ia)
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1. (noun) gloxinia
any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers
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1. (noun) gloxinia
american genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist
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