Main Entry: schef·flera

Pronunciation: \ˈshe-flə-rə\

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