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Definition of Bougainvillaea
1. Noun. Ornamental tropical woody vines.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Allioniaceae, Family Allioniaceae, Family Nyctaginaceae, Four-o'clock Family, Nyctaginaceae
Member holonyms: Bougainvillea
Definition of Bougainvillaea
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of bougainvillea) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bougainvillaea
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bougainvillaea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bougainvillaea
Literary usage of Bougainvillaea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus bougainvillaea bougainvillaea (named in honour of the French navigator Do
Bougainville). A genus of seven or eight gorgeous stove or greenhouse shrubs ..."
2. Australia by Dan Colwell (2000)
"Lined with restaurants and shaded by palm trees and bougainvillaea, it is the
perfect ... Pride of place goes to the frangipani, bougainvillaea and orchids. ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1866)
"SEEDING CUCUMBERS—WINTERING bougainvillaea SPLENDENS. ... Your treatment of the
bougainvillaea is correct, only it must have in your late vinery abundance ..."
4. A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1916)
"I stayed for a rosary and litany, the priest, his pretty, childless wife, and
myself, alone in the room. Great hangings of purple bougainvillaea, the glory ..."
5. Views of Nature: Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation by Alexander von Humboldt, Elise C. Otté, Henry George Bohn (1850)
"... but we missed, with regret, the red groves of bougainvillaea. Magdalena is
one of the deepest valleys I have seen in the chain of the Andes. ..."
6. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"... significantly, no native is allowed to enter), feasting his eyes on the blase
bougainvillaea, or resting them in the shade of the peepul and the banyan, ..."
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