Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various tropical American herbs of the genus Browallia in the nightshade family, cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of South American herbaceous plants, natural order Scrophulariaceæ, some species of which are cultivated for ornament.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the flowering plants of the genus Browallia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Browallia, genus name, after Bishop John Browall, (1707–1755), Swedish botanist.]
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Examples
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Look for white-flowered selections of perennials, such as astilbe, and annuals, such as impatiens, browallia, torenia and begonias.
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