cobaea
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| —n | |
| any climbing shrub of the tropical American genus Cobaea, esp C. scandens, grown for its large trumpet-shaped purple or white flowers: family Polemoniaceae | |
| [named after Bernabé Cobo (1572--1659), Jesuit missionary and naturalist] | |
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