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Definition of Plumerias
1. plumeria [n] - See also: plumeria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumerias
Literary usage of Plumerias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Plumerias are amongst the most fragrant of tropical flowers, vying in this respect
with the ... All species are likely to be called frangipani. Plumerias ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1893)
"... plumerias, and a hundred others, all shrubs or trees, generally beautiful in
leaf as well as flower. To crown all we have the creeping, twining, ..."
3. The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed by Alexander von Humboldt, William Macgillivray (1835)
"Here they found an abundant and diversified vegetation, consisting of arborescent
ferns, more than twenty- seven feet high, heliconias, plumerias, ..."
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