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Webster 1913 Edition

Bougainvillaea

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Bouˊgain-vil-læˊa

,

p

rop.

Noun.

[Named from

Bougainville

, the French navigator.]

(Bot.)

A genus of plants of the order

Nyctoginaceæ

, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.