allamanda
UK/aləˈmandə/
allamanda noun: any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica.
Noun
allamanda (plural allamandas)
- Any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica.
- 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.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
- Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 109
Forms of allamanda
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Origin of allamanda
From the genus name Allamanda, named after Swiss-Dutch natural historian Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand.
Questions about allamanda
- What does allamanda mean?
- Allamanda means any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica.
- What part of speech is allamanda?
- Allamanda is a noun.
- How do you pronounce allamanda?
- Allamanda is pronounced /aləˈmandə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of allamanda?
- The plural of allamanda is allamandas.
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