Cineraria Definition

sĭnə-rârē-ə
cinerarium
noun
A common hothouse plant (Senecio cruentus) of the composite family, with heart-shaped leaves and colorful flowers.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Cineraria

  • New Latin Cinerāria genus in which the plants were formerly classified from feminine of Latin cinerārius of ashes (in reference to the dusty or ash-covered appearance of the leaves of some species in the genus) cinerarium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cineraria Sentence Examples

  • Sow seeds of greenhouse and hothouse plants; also the different sorts of tender annuals; pot off those sown last month; sow cineraria for the earliest bloom; also Chinese primulas.

  • Many low trees covered the land, mostly small thorny acacia and some cineraria, all trunk and no branches.

  • This should be grown cool, just like a greenhouse Cineraria.

  • Dusty Miller (Senecio Cineraria) - A fine-leaved, half-shrubby perennial from the Mediterranean coast, where it grows from 1 1/2 to 3 feet in height, with much-cut silvery leaves and clustered heads of yellow flowers late in summer.

  • Where the plant cannot be grown in the border it will bloom in a sunny, airy greenhouse potted in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, and treated as one would a Cineraria.

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CCICIN

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AIARIA

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