Raf-fle'si-a, n.

(-flē'zhĭ-ă), n. [From the name of its discoverer, Sir S. Raffles.] (Bot.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitic upon the roots of a species of vine in Sumatra. The flowers are usually very large, attaining the diameter of three feet in one species, the R. Arnoldi. Baird.