bougainvillia

See also: Bougainvillia

English

Noun

bougainvillia (countable and uncountable, plural bougainvillias)

1. Alternative form of bougainvillea
   • 1906, Alice Perrin, “Powers of Darkness”, in Red Records, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 85:

     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.

   • 1917, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, volumes 21-23, page 278:

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

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

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

References

• “bougainvillia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.