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n. - Any garden plant having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip.

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  • Then followed shrubby fuchsia, calceolaria, eupatoria, and red and purple gentians; around and on the
  • Advancing further on my onward course, how joyfully I greeted as old acquaintance the purple gentiana and the brown calceolaria!
  • I haven't been so excited since I recognised a calceolaria last year, and told my host it was a calceolaria just before he told me.
  • I lobbed it far and wide over the wall, and it fell noiselessly and quite in the middle of Mr. Trumpington's most buttony calceolaria-bed.
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