any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
Origin: < NL (Linnaeus) < Gk kēro-cero-+ NL -pegia, perh. < Gk -pēgia, n. deriv. of pēgnýnai to stick in, fix in; perh. to be taken as “candle holder”; cf. Linnaeus' specific name candelabrum
[seer-uh-pee-jee-uh, -juh] 
