Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of polypetalous plants, type of the tribe Tibouchineæ in the order Melastomaceæ.
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Examples
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From gardeners.com: Woody-stemmed tropicals, such as jasmine, brugmansia, tibouchina and bananas, should be brought indoors before the first frost.
Pragmatic Solutions Field Notes 2007
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He bought me a copy, and I remember him standing beside a tibouchina tree in his patio, rain running down the red tiles of the roof, as he read aloud from the book.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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He bought me a copy, and I remember him standing beside a tibouchina tree in his patio, rain running down the red tiles of the roof, as he read aloud from the book.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The house was one of the less pretentious ones, but it was solid brick, two-storeyed with a double garage on the ground floor and a waterless fountain on the opposite side of the path from the tibouchina.
Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994
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A large tibouchina tree stood in the front garden, its deep purple bells looming like a Lenten cloud; its colour, Malone thought, was appropriate for the occasion but he would have preferred a more nondescript ornament.
Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994
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He left her standing like a shadow behind the security door, walked through the purple shade of the tibouchina and out to his car.
Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994
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I've also got a tibouchina rooting in the windowsill from Michael Streit.
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