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bougainvillia

bougainvillia is the alternative form 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

Forms of bougainvillia

pluralbougainvillias

Questions about bougainvillia

What is bougainvillia the alternative form of?
Bougainvillia is the alternative form of bougainvillea.

Words near bougainvillia in the dictionary

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

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