Date:  Thu, 9 Nov 1995 16:55:12 -0800

From:  Dan Moonhawk Alford <dalford[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]S1.CSUHAYWARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: Bougainvilla



I must've read the original message wrongly. I thought the original

poster was asking what the word "meant" (i.e., in its original language

morphemes?) rather than what it was.



On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Tony Vitale wrote:



> This is from a friend who is a professional botanist:

>

> Bougainvilla is a South American shrub in the Nyctaginaceae family (four

> o'clock or Marvel-of-Peru). It was named after a French navigator :(De

> Bougainville, 1729-1811). I found the info in Bailey's, The Standard

> Cyclopedia of Horticulture vol. 1, MacMillan Co., NY 1927.

>

>     \tony

>