See Also: implementiferous(dictionary)

gloxinia (iou) and implementiferous (iou)


gloxinia (iou)



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.

implementiferous (iou)



implementiferous adjective. L19.
[formed as IMPLEMENT verb + -I- + -FEROUS.]
Geology. Of a deposit: containing (stone) implements of human origin.