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English
Noun
bougainvillia (plural bougainvillias)
- Alternative form of bougainvillea
1917, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, volumes 21-23, page 278:The plumbagos will send out shoots with flowers two feet six inches long; the bougainvillias will send out shoots five feet long, with flowers.
1960, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service:[…] bougainvillias, the beauty of the lake, now shimmering gently like a piece of some rich silk, now grey and menacing like an angry monster.
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