n.
Pronunciation: ' she-fl ə -r ə
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Jacob Christoph Scheffler † 1742 German physician
Date: 1953
: any of a genus ( Schefflera ) of chiefly tropical and subtropical shrubs and trees of the ginseng family having usually palmately compound leaves and including some (as S. actinophylla syn. Brassaia actinophylla ) grown indoors and in gardens