escallonia

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'Escallonia' rubra. Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
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Etymology

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From the genus name.

Noun

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escallonia (plural escallonias)

  1. Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
    • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
      Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.

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