cineraria noun2 •Any of the genus Cineraria of flowering plants in the sunflower family. •Any of the garden flowers in the species Pericallis × hybrida (formerly classified in the genus Cineraria)."It's wonderful. Those cinerarias are really show pieces. And what is that lovely tall flower - the rose-pink one?" "That's a Weigela, that is, Amabilis variegata." — 1950 formscinerarias