allamanda
See also: Allamanda
English
Etymology
From the genus name Allamanda, named after Swiss-Dutch natural historian Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /aləˈmandə/
Noun
allamanda (plural allamandas)
- Any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica. [from 18th c.]
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, page 114:
- Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.
- 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics 2018, p. 109:
- Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.
- 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 111:
- Then one day she received an allamanda seedling from an old neighbor.
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Spanish
Noun
allamanda f (plural allamandas)
- allamanda