bougainvillaea

Questions about bougainvillaea

What does bougainvillaea mean?

bougainvillaea means "ornamental tropical woody vines".

How many syllables are in bougainvillaea?

bougainvillaea has 6 syllables: bo-u-gain-vil-la-ea. The stress falls on "vil".

What is another word for bougainvillaea?

Close synonyms include genus Bougainvillea, genus Bougainvillaea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bougainvillaea a common word?

bougainvillaea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.