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Bougainville
2 English words descend from French
Bougainville
, most common first.
Bougainville
A surname from French.
bougainvillea
Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus Bougainvillea, having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers.