Added 9 October 2026
peloria
noun
Latin root: peloria Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about peloria at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A variety of toadflax having five spurs instead of one.
- abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity
Origin
From New Latin peloria (“mutant, especially mutant toadflax”), from Ancient Greek πέλωρ (pélōr, “monster”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia, -y: forming abstract nouns”) and Latin -ia (“-ia: forming neuter plurals”).
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