ˌsȯvəˈjēzēə, -ēzhə noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Pierre A. Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages died 1795 French botanist + New Latin -ia
: a genus of chiefly tropical American herbs or undershrubs (family Ochnaceae) having alternate leaves, fringed stipules, and small pentamerous flowers with an outer row of staminodia which is filiform and an inner row of staminodia which is petaloid