Crossword clues for bougainvillea
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of woody vine, 1866, named for French navigator Louis Bougainville (1729-1811).
Wiktionary
n. Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus ''Bougainvillea'', having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers.
WordNet
n. any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions
Wikipedia
Bougainvillea ( or ) is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees with flower-like spring leaves near its flowers. Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. They are native plants of South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina ( Chubut Province). Bougainvillea are also known as buganvilla ( Spain), bugambilia ( Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Philippines), bougenville ( Indonesia), "'pokok bunga kertas"' ( Pakistan), Napoleón ( Honduras), veranera ( Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama), trinitaria ( Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Venezuela), Santa Rita ( Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) or papelillo ( northern Peru).
The vine species grow anywhere from 1 to 12 m (3 to 40 ft.) tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. The thorns are tipped with a black, waxy substance. They are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. The leaves are alternate, simple ovate-acuminate, 4–13 cm long and 2–6 cm broad. The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colours associated with the plant, including pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene.
Bougainvillea are relatively pest-free plants, but they may suffer from worms, snails and aphids. The larvae of some Lepidoptera species also use them as food plants, for example the giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia).
Usage examples of "bougainvillea".
Little Adele and huge Mira were both up and full, flooding the black-and-white checkerwork marble with pale blue light, turning the giant vases filled with oleander and jessamine and bougainvillea into a pastel wonderland.
He parted the branches of some palms with his delicate hands, and Domini, peering between them, saw in a place of deep shadows an isolated square room, whose white walls were almost entirely concealed by masses of purple bougainvillea.
On the porch the hanging pots of yellow bougainvillea, scarlet gaillardia and purple impatiens added a dreamlike feeling.
On passing through a doorway, which was closed by a strong wooden door, the Heaths found themselves in a small paved courtyard, which was roofed with bougainvillea, and provided with stone benches and a small stone table.
Tubs of bougainvillea, hibiscus and tibouchina in full flower lent splashes of exotic color to the sprawling rooftop garden.
The lush green of winter, with its surfeit of magenta and salmon bougainvillea, had erupted anew in a splashy show of crocuses, hyacinths, and flowering plum trees.
The exterior landscaping is a bright mix of magenta bougainvillea, red bottlebrush, junipers, and imported palms.
Not even the ubiquitous bougainvillea and the great clay urns overflowing with dazzling geraniums diminished its ugliness.
The houses on its outskirts were modern, white-walled and red-tiled like the farms and each with its trailing vines and bougainvillea, with wisteria and the blue of the jacaranda trees adding splashes of bright colour.
Trailing jasmine, bougainvillea, and roses evoked the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
On the other side of a hedge of flaming bougainvillea, she saw and heard pedestrians strolling by, filling the air with pleasant chitchat.
Leah, and she whirled around to see the bougainvillea split asunder by a wedge of thick boughs.
The properties on either side of the road were getting steadily smarter, the vegetation in the front yards becoming thicker until suddenly the house fronts were no longer visible, hidden behind lush cascades of bougainvillea and manicured spruce.
Bouquets of scarlet bougainvillea were stippled across a curving white entrance, before which stood the empty marble basin of a fountain.
Her suite on the second floor consisted of a large living room and bedroom, and a terrace overlooking a colorful sea of white and red anthuriums, purple bougainvillea and coconut-palms.