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‖ Plumeria Bot.|pluːˈmɪərɪə|
Also Plumieria.
[mod.L.; named by Tournefort, 1700, after the botanist C. Plumier (Plumerius).]
A tropical genus of trees (family Apocynaceæ), having large fragrant salver-shaped flowers, white, yellow, or purplish, in terminal cymes. There are about forty species, among them the red jasmine tree, nosegay-tree, and pagoda-tree of the West Indies.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The plumeria with a rose-coloured and very sweet flower [etc.]. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. (1794) 215 Plumeria or Red Jasmine has two reflex follicles, with the seeds flat, winged, and imbricate. 1836Macgillivray Humboldt's Trav. xiv. 168 Arborescent ferns, more than twenty-seven feet high, heliconias, plumerias, browneas,..palms, and other plants. 1882Garden 9 Sept. 225/1 The most beautiful Plumieria we have seen. |