marcgravia

marcgravia: \\märkˈgrāvēə, mȧkˈ-\ noun
Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Georg Markgraf died 1644 German naturalist and traveler in So. America + New Latin -ia

: a genus (the type of the family Marcgraviaceae) of tropical American epiphytic woody vines that have vegetative shoots with 2-ranked closely appressed sessile leaves and flowering shoots with spreading petiolate leaves

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Marcgravia /märk-grāˈvi-ə/

noun

A tropical American genus of climbing epiphytic shrubs, with pitcher-like bracts developed as nectaries, visited by hummingbirds, giving name to the family Marcgraviāˈceae, related to the tea family

ORIGIN: Georg Markgraf (1610–44), German traveller

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