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noun
Any of the family Gesneriaceae of tropical and subtropical flowering plants, valued as ornamentals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: woody plant, ligneous plant
History
From translingual Gesneria + -ad.
