Definitions for cinerarias

cinerarias cin·e·rar·i·a

Spelling: [sin-uh-rair-ee-uh]
IPA: /ˌsɪn əˈrɛər i ə/

Cinerarias is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 434 anagrams from letters in cinerarias (aaceiinrrs).

Definitions for cinerarias

noun

  1. any of several horticultural varieties of a composite plant, Senecio hybridus, of the Canary Islands, having clusters of flowers with white, blue, purple, red, or variegated rays.
  2. a place for depositing the ashes of the dead after cremation.

Origin of cinerarias

1590-1600; New Latin, feminine of cinerārius ashen, equivalent to Latin ciner- (stem of cinis ashes) + -ārius -ary; so named from ash-colored down on leaves

Examples for cinerarias

The cineraria is easy to raise and to grow, but it will by no means take care of itself.

The cineraria is an excellent illustration of the composite form, which bears both kinds of flowers.

Having thus finished with the cineraria and their contents, the exploration of the tomb itself was resumed.

M. Flamaran was carrying under his arm a pot of cineraria, which made his stomach a perfect bower.

In this country usually propagated by seed, as for cineraria; but special varieties are perpetuated by offsets.

She remained standing by a vase of cineraria, flourishing in spite of the severe winter weather.

To illustrate the change of method still further we may instance the cineraria.

It is so much like the silvery cineraria that it is difficult to remember that it prefers a cool and even partly-shaded place.

What has been done with the cineraria has its parallel in quite a number of the most elegant decorative flowers.

For the Intermediate section the same methods of culture as advised for the other classes of cineraria will apply.

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