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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various bushy or trailing tropical American plants of the genus Columnea, grown indoors for their showy colorful tubular flowers.
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- noun tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Columnea, genus name, after Fabius Columna, latinized name of Fabio Colonna (1567–1650?), Italian botanist.]
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