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gloxinia noun. E19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from P. B. Gloxin, 18th-cent. German botanist.]
Any of various tropical American plants of or formerly included in the genus Gloxinia (family Gesneriaceae); esp. any of the forms or hybrids of the Brazilian Sinningia speciosa, with large velvety trumpet-shaped corollas, grown as hothouse plants.