bougainvillea

bougainvillea [boo-guh n-vil-ee-uh, -vil-yuh, boh-] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. any of several shrubs or vines of the genus Bougainvillea, native to South America, having small flowers with showy, variously colored bracts, and often cultivated in warm regions.

Origin of bougainvillea 1789; New Latin, named after L. A. de Bougainville Examples from the Web for bougainvillea Historical Examples of bougainvillea

Wolf crossed the flags, and when he stopped by the bougainvillea his face was red.

Kit Musgrave’s Luck

Harold Bindloss

Jefferson sat in the shade of the bougainvillea and pondered some letters.

Kit Musgrave’s Luck

Harold Bindloss

Betty in white by the bougainvillea, Olivia on the veranda in her black and gold.

Kit Musgrave’s Luck

Harold Bindloss

And there are palms and cypress-trees, and bougainvillea and other climbing vines.

The Ship Dwellers

Albert Bigelow Paine

The gardens are full of camellias, roses, bougainvillea, &c.

A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’

Annie Allnut Brassey

British Dictionary definitions for bougainvillea bougainvillea bougainvillaea noun

1. any tropical woody nyctaginaceous widely cultivated climbing plant of the genus Bougainvillea, having inconspicuous flowers surrounded by showy red or purple bracts

Word Origin for bougainvillea C19: New Latin, named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator Word Origin and History for bougainvillea n.

type of woody vine, 1866, named for French navigator Louis Bougainville (1729-1811).