Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, the type of the order Gesneraceæ, including about 50 species of tropical America, mostly Brazilian.
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The camellia, provided as it now is with glamorous and faintly immoral connotations, has tricked us into forgetting that its godfather was a Jesuit named Kamel; but gesnera, goodyera and fothergilla still wear their synthetic verbal grandeur with a stilted, self-conscious air like a herd in his Sunday blacks.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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