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Wikispecies

Proper noun

Escallonia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Escalloniaceae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Escalloniales - order; Escalloniaceae - family

English

Wikispecies

Noun

escallonia ‎(plural escallonias)

1. 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.

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