Definitions
Etymologies
- From French bégonia, named after Michel Bégon (1638–1710), French governor of Saint-Domingue. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin Begonia, genus name, after Michel Bégon (1638-1710), French governor in the West Indies. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They would stop to admire the begonia pots, take pictures of the walls that had been the scenes of the vengeful executions … brigades of workers had carefully erased the bullet marks.”
“Kristin: "don't forget to smell the rosies" - from a botanist's view, the flowers being smelt are of a begonia.”
“Cathy had brought over a large red begonia in bloom and some homemade cookies.”
“While sitting beneath those fragrant pink trumpets, Morris can gaze across the porch at this stunning 'Bonita Shea' begonia.”
“A celebrity among horticulturalists, he's even got a new kind of begonia named after him, Begonia blancii, after discovering it two years ago while trekking through a rainforest in the Philippines.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Green Man Whose Gardens Defy Gravity
“Nonetheless, when the opportunity arose to have tea at the Regency Hotel Tuesday afternoon with Marge Ternes, the reigning grand dame of Park Avenue's malls, I was hopeful the opportunity would arise to raise the begonia question.”
“A curve of lawn with a driveway, two-car garage, liriope and begonia planted on the sidewalks in summer, decorative purple cabbages and winter pansies from greenhouses in fall.”
“I'm not some shy begonia just off the yam truck; I'm more than happy to call a rake "a rake" and a hoe "a hoe" and play the game as directed.”
“Spain, 2003" is a small, begonia-like potted plant shot from overhead on a rough-textured surface further complicated by crisscrossing, but indeterminate, shadows.”
“While Diana was sleek and saintly (or so she had us believe) and a ruthless player of victim status, Fergie was like a municipal begonia, all cheap and obvious.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘begonia’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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bearfax december 2006
opulent, spot, kaffee, sift, cedar, pushy, buckwheat, zydeco, chemeketa, hood, blood, food and 107 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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2007bee-r03
antioxidant, rambla, trafficking, volplane, sluice, jettison, insomnolence, egyptiac, claque, provincial, satisfice, trumpery and 95 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Eponyms Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!
praline, hosta, salmonella, tortoni, gardenia, zinnia, samaritan, jeremiad, shrapnel, boswell, Fletcherism, bandersnatch and 41 more...
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Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: ...
being things I remember from my mother's gardens, including flower, vegetable and shrubbery.
poppy, foxglove, snapdragon, iris, marigold, lily, clematis, rose, peony, nasturtium, petunia, phlox and 58 more...
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lovely
maleficent, wanderlust, meiosis, apollo, halcyon, saturnine, dactyl, begonia, porcelain, trilobite, sacrosanct, echolalia and 21 more...
Tweets
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