RAFFLESIA

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Sir Stamford Raffles died 1826 English colonial administrator Date: 1830 any of a genus ( Rafflesia of the family Rafflesiaceae) of Malaysian dicotyledonous plants that are parasitic in other plants and have fleshy usually foul-smelling apetalous flowers emerging from the host, imbricated scales in place of leaves, and no stems