bougainvillea

[boo-guhn-vil-ee-uh, -vil-yuh, boh-] Origin

bou·gain·vil·le·a

[boo-guhn-vil-ee-uh, -vil-yuh, boh-]
noun
any of several shrubs or vines of the genus Bougainvillea, native to South America, having small flowers with showy, variously colored bracts, and often cultivated in warm regions.

Origin:
1789; < Neo-Latin, named after L. A. de Bougainville
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Bougainvillea has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.
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bougainvillea or bougainvillaea (ˌbuːɡənˈvɪlɪə)
 
n
any tropical woody nyctaginaceous widely cultivated climbing plant of the genus Bougainvillea, having inconspicuous flowers surrounded by showy red or purple bracts
 
[C19: New Latin, named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729--1811), French navigator]
 
bougainvillaea or bougainvillaea
 
n
 
[C19: New Latin, named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729--1811), French navigator]

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bougainvillea
type of woody vine, 1866, named for Fr. navigator Louis Bougainville (1729-1811).
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