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Calceolaria

noun

Any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip. Synonym: slipperwort.

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... cry. Why not flowers—fresh, fair, fragrant flowers? You can do a lot with flowers. Girls love them. There is poetry in them. And, what is more, there is a recognized language of flowers. Shoot in a rose, or a calceolaria, or an herbaceous border, or something, I gather, and you have made a formal proposal of marriage without any of the trouble of rehearsing a long speech and practising appropriate gestures in front of your bedroom looking-glass. Why, then, did not ...

— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

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Words linked to "Calceolaria" : flower, slipperwort