| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| lobelia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lo·be·li·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l -b  l- , -bly |
| NOUN: | Any of numerous plants of the genus Lobelia, having terminal racemes of variously colored flowers with a bilabiate corolla. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin Lobelia, genus name, after Matthias de Lobel (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician.
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