Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several succulent plants of the genus Kalanchoe, often cultivated as houseplants for their fleshy leaves and colorful flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of tropical herbs or shrubs belonging to the natural order Crassulaceæ, or orpine family, differing from most other plants of the order by having the calyx 4-parted.
  • noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.

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  • noun Any of the genus Kalanchoe of tropical, succulent flowering plants.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Kalanchoe, probably from a Chinese source akin to Cantonese gaa1 laam4 coi3 : gaa1 laam4, Buddhist monastery (from Middle Chinese kɦia lam, short for səə̆ŋ kɦia lam mua, from Sanskrit saṃghārāmaḥ : saṃghaḥ, sangha; see sangha + ārāmaḥ, pleasure grove) + coi3, vegetable, greens; see bok choy.]

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From the genus name.

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Examples

  • I did get a small African violet and a yellow blooming kalanchoe, each for $2.50, though!

    Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden 2010

  • Two are new arrivals, plants that friends brought her when she was in the hospital, having her foot operated on: a kalanchoe and a miniature chrysanthemum.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • My volunteers this year have been arugula, amaranth, purslane, kalanchoe bloss. in red and yellow and a grass (unknown) the original plant of which I dug up from the roadside ( there were loads and it was self seeded, not planted there) I want that muhly grass!

    The Volunteer Gravel State « Fairegarden 2009

  • Many plants also have methods of asexual reproduction (vegetative reproduction), which produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent: root-sprouting (limberbush, palo verde, aspen), stolons and rhizomes (agaves, strawberries, many grasses), and aerial plantlets (some agaves, mother-of-millions, kalanchoe).

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  • • Backdrop low, bushy plants like kalanchoe or Chinese evergreen against tall, spiky plants like dieffenbachia or sansevieria.

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  • • Backdrop low, bushy plants like kalanchoe or Chinese evergreen against tall, spiky plants like dieffenbachia or sansevieria.

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  • • Backdrop low, bushy plants like kalanchoe or Chinese evergreen against tall, spiky plants like dieffenbachia or sansevieria.

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  • "The bumblebees," she said, pointing to bumblebee topiaries made of yellow kalanchoe and black ornamental peppers.

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  • "Also avoid sago palm and other members of the cycad family as well as mushrooms, rhododendrons, azaleas, lilies of the valley, oleanders, rosebays, foxgloves and kalanchoe."

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