Usually means: Colorful, flowering vine native tropics.
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  1. bougainvillea: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bougainvillea, bougainvillea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bougainvillea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bougainvillea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bougainvillea: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bougainvillea, bougainvillea: Wordnik
  7. bougainvillea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bougainvillea: Wiktionary
  9. bougainvillea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bougainvillea (bougainvillaea): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bougainvillea: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bougainvillea: Dictionary.com
  13. bougainvillea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bougainvillea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. bougainvillea: Rhymezone
  16. bougainvillea: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bougainvillea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bougainvillea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. bougainvillea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bougainvillea: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bougainvillea, Bougainvillea, Bougainvillea: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Bougainvillea: Dictionary of Horticultural Terms

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▸ noun:  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.

Similar:
bougainvillia, bougainvillaea, bougainvilia, paper flower, bouvardia, brugmansia, Gardenia, bauhinia, orchid tree, bejuco, more...

Phrases:
Bougainvillea glabra, genus bougainvillea, Bougainvillea spectabilis, more...

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purple, red, pink, scarlet, crimson, magenta, brilliant, bright, white, colored, orange

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Similar:
bougainvillia, bougainvillaea, bougainvilia, paper flower, bouvardia, brugmansia, Gardenia, bauhinia, orchid tree, bejuco, more...

Phrases:
Bougainvillea glabra, genus bougainvillea, Bougainvillea spectabilis, more...

Adjectives:
purple, red, pink, scarlet, crimson, magenta, brilliant, bright, white, colored, orange

Colors:
    magenta,     fuchsia,     pink,     purple,     red, more...



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