saintpaulia
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prettygoodwordsaintpaulia (sent-PAU-lee-uh) - n., the African violet.
Another name for. From the genus name, which really is Saintpaulia, which is named after Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire, a district commissioner of the German colony of Tanganyika who was the first European to collect good enough specimens that they could be studied (by his father, a botanist).
---L.
Another name for. From the genus name, which really is Saintpaulia, which is named after Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire, a district commissioner of the German colony of Tanganyika who was the first European to collect good enough specimens that they could be studied (by his father, a botanist).
---L.
