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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of ornamental herbs, natural order Gesneraceæ, belonging to tropical America.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun any plant of the genus Achimenes having gloxinialike flowers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias

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