Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Bougainvillea
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
See also: bougainvillea
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin; French Bougainville + -ia, named after French admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Coined by French scientist Philibert Commerson in 1789.
Proper noun
Bougainvillea f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Nyctaginaceae – the bougainvillea.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots – clades; Caryophyllales – order; Nyctaginaceae – family; Bougainvilleeae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Bougainvillea spectabilis (great bougainvillea) - type species
Descendants
- Dutch: bougainville
- English: bougainvillea
- French: bougainvillée
- Portuguese: buganvília
- Spanish: buganvilla
References
Bougainvillea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Bougainvillea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Bougainvillea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads