bauera
/ˈbaʊərə
/noun
A small evergreen shrub with pink or purple flowers, native to temperate regions of Australia.
- Genus Bauera, family Cunoniaceae.
- Bush rocks, melaleucas, sweet flowered baueras and silvery westringias had always enchanted the designer.
- She records battling ‘through bauera and cutting grass, and down very steeply through more bad regrowth, fallen logs and boulders - a thoroughly horrible section’.
Origin
Modern Latin, named after the brothers Franz (1758–1840) and Ferdinand (1760–1826) Bauer, Austrian botanical draughtsmen.
- inversion
- inversion layer
- inversion temperature
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- invertase
- invertebrate
- inverted comma
- inverted pendulum
- inverted snob
- inverted snobbery
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- invertibility
- invertible
- invert sugar
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- investable
- investible
- investigable
- investigate
- investigation
- investigational
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