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单词 bougainvillea
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bougainvillea

(buːgənvɪliə)
Word forms: plural bougainvilleasregional note: in BRIT, also use bougainvillaea
variable noun
Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.

bougainvillea in British English

or bougainvillaea (ˌbuːɡənˈvɪlɪə)
noun
any tropical woody nyctaginaceous widely cultivated climbing plant of the genus Bougainvillea, having inconspicuous flowers surrounded by showy red or purple bracts
Word origin
C19: New Latin, named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator

bougainvillea in American English

(ˌbugənˈvɪliə; ˌbugənˈvɪljə; ˌbugənˈvijə) or ˌbougainˈvillaea (ˌbugənˈvɪliə; ˌbugənˈvɪljə; ˌbugənˈvijə)
noun
any of a genus (Bougainvillea) of woody tropical vines of the four-o'clock family, having inconspicuous flowers surrounded by large, showypurple or red bracts
Word origin
ModL, after Bougainville1

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Examples of 'bougainvillea' in a sentence
bougainvillea

I parked in the lot, which was planted with rhododendron and bougainvillea.
Stuart Harrison BETTER THAN THIS (2002)
I was standing in the shadows thrown by the lamps beneath the bougainvillea that grew along the overhead trellis.
Stuart Harrison BETTER THAN THIS (2002)
Here, by the sea, under the big sky, the palms and the bougainvillea flashing past, it should be easy to forget five years of destruction.
Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
Through the dense trees I could see purple bougainvillea shivering against the stucco of the hacienda-style buildings.
Jefferson Parker SILENT JOE (2002)

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