bougainvillea

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noun any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions

From taxonomic name Bougainvillea, from French Bougainville + -a. Named after French admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811).

The fan-shaped, water-hoarding traveller's palm formed a background for the brilliant magenta-colored bougainvillea. — Tales of the Malayan Coast: From Penang to the Philippines, Rounsevelle Wildman
A flower embroidered path led them around the castle to a group of little crystalline houses all overgrown with bougainvillea vines and honeysuckle. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930, Various
It was on a night at Groote Schuur, as I walked with Smuts through the acres of hydrangeas and bougainvillea (Rhodes' favorite flowers), with a new moon peeping overhead that I got the real mood of the man. — An African Adventure, Isaac Frederick Marcosson

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