Stapelia

Quick meaning: Stapelia is a noun meaning (botany) Any of the genus Stapelia of low-growing succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa, and often giving off an odour of rotten flesh.

Meaning

(botany) Any of the genus Stapelia of low-growing succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa, and often giving off an odour of rotten flesh.

Example Sentences

He had also a collection of stapelias and other small prickly plants; some of them were almost invisible without a magnifying glass, but most interesting.

Prom.^([Promenaea]) stapelioides has 2-inch-wide yellow flowers with concentric red-brown markings, resembling the famous carrion flower stapelia, hence the epithet stapelioides.

[…]the instinctive faculty[…]sometimes falls into mistake and error, as in the instance which Mr. Kirby gives of the flesh-fly mistaking the blossom of the stapelia for carrion, the hen a piece of chalk for an egg ; and he may add the instance given by Dr. Roget, of the vulture mistaking the skin of an animal stuffed with hay for the carcase.

Word Forms

• stapelias

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include astelia, stavesacre, stipa, triggerplant, stephanotis, sternbergia.

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