escallonia
See also: Escallonia
English
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Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
escallonia (plural escallonias)
- Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51
- Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51
Translations
plant of the genus Escallonia
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