bougainvillia

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A form of 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.

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Meanings

nounbougainvillia (countable and uncountable, plural bougainvillias)

plural bougainvillias

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of bougainvillea.

    The plumbagos will send out shoots with flowers two feet six inches long; the bougainvillias will send out shoots five feet long, with flowers.

    1917, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, volumes 21-23, page 278
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    There was the bench upon which I had sat and listened to Miss de Castro’s extraordinary story, and behind it the dusty masses of bougainvillia hanging to the wall.

    1906, Alice Perrin, “Powers of Darkness”, in Red Records, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 85

    […] bougainvillias, the beauty of the lake, now shimmering gently like a piece of some rich silk, now grey and menacing like an angry monster.

    1960, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service
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