Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gloxinia \Glox*in"i*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
   American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome
   bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German
   botanist.

Source : WordNet®

gloxinia
     n : any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia
         (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers