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escallonia

escallonia noun: any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia.

escallonia: any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
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Noun

escallonia (plural escallonias)

  1. Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
    • Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.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

escallonia meaning in Tamil and Arabic

escallonia in Tamil

தென் அமெரிக்க மலர்ச்செடி வகை

escallonia in Arabic

plant of the genus Escallonia
إِسْقَلُّونِيَة ʔisqallūniya

Forms of escallonia

pluralescallonias

Origin of escallonia

Borrowed from Translingual Escallonia.

Questions about escallonia

What does escallonia mean?
Escallonia means any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia.
What is escallonia in Tamil?
Escallonia in Tamil is தென் அமெரிக்க மலர்ச்செடி வகை. See Escallonia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is escallonia?
Escallonia is a noun.
What is the plural of escallonia?
The plural of escallonia is escallonias.

Words near escallonia in the dictionary

  1. Escalera
  2. Escaleras
  3. escaline
  4. escallion
  5. escallions
  6. escallonia
  7. escalloniaceous
  8. escallonias
  9. escallop
  10. escalloped
  11. escalloping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: escallonia (page history and authors); escallonia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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