[ ˌalə'mandə ]
■ noun a tropical shrub or climber with showy yellow or purple flowers. [ Allamanda cathartica and other species.]
Origin
mod. L., named after the 18th-cent. Swiss naturalist Jean-Nicholas-Sébastien Allamand .
[ ˌalə'mandə ]
■ noun a tropical shrub or climber with showy yellow or purple flowers. [ Allamanda cathartica and other species.]
Origin
mod. L., named after the 18th-cent. Swiss naturalist Jean-Nicholas-Sébastien Allamand .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004