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bougainvilleas

bougainvilleas is the plural of bougainvillea.

Meaning of bougainvillea

Noun

bougainvillea (countable and uncountable, plural bougainvilleas)

  1. Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus Bougainvillea, having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers.
    • He arrives bearing flowers as though he's come to court me. Tonight he brings me bougainvillea. It is always a surprise.1991, Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press Inc., →ISBN, page 87 of 83-88

Questions about bougainvilleas

What is bougainvilleas the plural of?
Bougainvilleas is the plural of bougainvillea.

Words near bougainvilleas in the dictionary

  1. Bougainville Strait
  2. Bougainville thicketbird
  3. bougainvillea
  4. Bougainvillean
  5. Bougainvilleans
  6. bougainvilleas
  7. bougainvillia
  8. bougainvillias
  9. bougainvilliid
  10. bougainvilliids
  11. bougar

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