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English
Etymology
From the genus name Allamanda, named after Swiss-Dutch natural historian Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand.
Pronunciation
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.
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: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.
1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 109:Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.
2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 111:Then one day she received an allamanda seedling from an old neighbor.
Spanish
Noun
allamanda f (plural allamandas)
- allamanda