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stapelia

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Etymology

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From Stapelia, the genus name, after J. B. van Stapel.

Noun

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stapelia (plural stapelias)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Stapelia of low-growing succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa, and often giving off an odour of rotten flesh.
    • 1835, The Gentleman′s Magazine, volume 159, page 234:
      [] 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.
    • 2005, Complete Guide to Orchids, Ortho Books, page 211:
      Prom.[Promenaea] stapelioides has 2-inch-wide yellow flowers with concentric red-brown markings, resembling the famous carrion flower stapelia, hence the epithet stapelioides.
    • 2010, Marianne North, Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist, page 204:
      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.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from translingual Stapelia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /staˈpɛ.lja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlja
  • Hyphenation: sta‧pè‧lia

Noun

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stapelia f (plural stapelie)

  1. stapelia

Further reading

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  • stapelia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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