Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A South American genus of trees or shrubs, of the natural order Saxifragaceæ, allied to the Itea of the United States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
South American flowering plants of the genusEscallonia
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Examples
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Behind them, again, was the grey – green garden, and among the pear – shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing – boats seemed caught and suspended.
Jacob's Room 2004
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Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911
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Any soil with even a tentative protestation to fertility will support escallonia.
Article Source Ian Greeks 2009
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We made our way down along a little road, the big worn flints standing up out of the gravel, by brakes of bramble, turf-walls where the ferns grew thick, by bits of wild upland covered with gorse and rusty bracken, and down at last to the tiny hamlet -- four or five low white houses, in little gardens where the escallonia grew thick and glossy, the purple veronica bloomed richly, and the green fleshy mesembryanthemum tumbled and dripped over the fences.
Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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