stapelia (iou) and Casanova (iou)

stapelia (iou)

stapelia noun. L18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Jan Bode van Stapel (d. 1636), Dutch botanist + -IA1.]
Any of various succulent southern African plants constituting the genus Stapelia (family Asclepiadaceae), remarkable for the large size and fetid smell of the star-shaped flowers. Also called carrion-flower, starfish-flower.
stapeliad noun a plant belonging to any of a group of closely related genera including Stapelia and others formerly considered part of it M20.

Casanova (iou)

Casanova noun. E20.
[Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-98), Italian adventurer.]
A man who engages in promiscuous love affairs.

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