Schlumbergera buckleyi
- noun
- /ˌʃlʌmˈbɜrɡəra ˈbʌkliˌaɪ/
- Specialized
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Schlumbergera buckleyi
- My grandmother's Schlumbergera buckleyi blooms beautifully every December by the window.
Examples
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The Schlumbergera buckleyi is often called the Christmas cactus.
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We learned how to propagate Schlumbergera buckleyi from cuttings in our botany class.
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The vibrant flowers of Schlumbergera buckleyi make it a popular choice among indoor gardeners.
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I bought a new Schlumbergera buckleyi for my living room.
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The vibrant flowers of Schlumbergera buckleyi make it a popular choice among indoor gardeners.
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My grandmother's Schlumbergera buckleyi blooms beautifully every December by the window.
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I bought a new Schlumbergera buckleyi for my living room.
Synonyms
A cactus grown as a houseplant with flat jointed stems and purple winter flowers
A houseplant from Brazil with flat stem sections and pink or purple flowers that bloom in winter
A houseplant with bright flowers that blooms in December
Surface Forms
Morphology
Schlumbergera + buckleyi
The phrase is a Latin binomial (genus + specific epithet), so a learner who knows 'Schlumbergera' as a genus of cacti can transparently infer this denotes a particular species of that genus. However, the epithet 'buckleyi' is not a meaningful English word and provides no descriptive information about the plant's appearance or common name, so the specific sense (e.g. 'Christmas cactus') is not predictable from the parts. Given this partial predictability, the item is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Schlumbergera buckleyi may come from two people's names: Schlumbergera after a plant collector called Schlumberger and buckleyi after someone called Buckley. The long Latin name works like a label that 'honors' those people and helps gardeners tell this winter‑flowering house cactus from other plants.
