allamanda

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English

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Etymology

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From the genus name Allamanda, named after Swiss-Dutch natural historian Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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allamanda (plural allamandas)

  1. Any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica. [from 18th c.]
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’”, in The Lost World [], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 114:
      Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.
    • 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 109:
      Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.
    • 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 111:
      Then one day she received an allamanda seedling from an old neighbor.

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Noun

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allamanda f (plural allamandas)

  1. allamanda