/sear'euh pee"jee euh, -jeuh/ , n.
any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
[ kero- CERO- + NL -pegia, perh. -pegia, n. deriv. of pegnýnai to stick in, fix in; perh. to be taken as "candle holder"; cf. Linnaeus' specific name candelabrum ]