bougainvillaea

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bougainvillaea - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bougainvillaea \Bou`gain*vil*l[ae]`a\, prop. n. [Named from
     Bougainville, the French navigator.] (Bot.)
     A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginace[ae], from
     tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by
     large bracts.
     [1913 Webster]

bougainvillaea - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Bougainvillaea
      n 1: ornamental tropical woody vines [syn: genus Bougainvillea
           , Bougainvillaea, genus Bougainvillaea]