escallonia
See also: Escallonia
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
escallonia (plural escallonias)
- Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
- Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.
Translations
plant of the genus Escallonia
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