Meaning of allamanda | Babel Free

Definitions

Any plant in the genus Allamanda, especially those grown in mild climates and indoors for their colorful flowers, such as Allamanda cathartica.

Examples

“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.”

“Sweetman snaps off an allamanda bloom and examines it so minutely he might be seeking his salvation in the flower's golden centre.”

“Then one day she received an allamanda seedling from an old neighbor.”

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