cineraria

Meanings

Plural: cinerarias

Noun

• herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers
• a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
• plural of cinerarium
• Any of the genus Cineraria of flowering plants in the sunflower family.
• Any of the garden flowers in the species Pericallis × hybrida (formerly classified in the genus Cineraria).

Synonyms

cinerarium, columbarium, Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus