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Definition of Bougainvillaeas
1. bougainvillaea [n] - See also: bougainvillaea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bougainvillaeas
Literary usage of Bougainvillaeas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... may be used for the production of cuttings, which should be inserted in sandy
soil and struck in the frame or greenhouse. bougainvillaeas Natural Order ..."
2. Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude (1887)
"Passion-flowers, bougainvillaeas, and convolvulus crept up the tree-stems or hung
in masses on the walls. Man may be vulgar, but trees and flowers cannot be ..."
3. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Allnutt Brassey, George Pearson, Albert Yelverton Bingham (1879)
"The cliff just here is overhung with bougainvillaeas, geraniums, fuchsias, aloes,
prickly pears, and other flowers, ..."
4. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1900)
"... to Hamilton with its festoons of bougainvillaeas, and down the blue and limpid
waters of the bay to still and shady Paget Parish with its old church, ..."
5. In the Trades, the tropics & the roaring forties by Annie baroness Brassey, Baroness Annie Allnut Brassey (1885)
"There were bougainvillaeas of every shade, ranging from darkest purple to palest
mauve; trumpet-shaped ..."
6. Gardening (1904)
"The bougainvillaeas which are no win a semi-dormant state in a cool house, can
be placed in a few degrees higher temperature to bring them into flow er for ..."
7. Vines and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Climbing Plants for Flower, Foliage by William C. McCollom (1911)
"The bougainvillaeas can be grown as vines if trained on wires stretched about
twelve inches from the roof of the house, or they can be led up wire-frame ..."
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