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Mandevilla

noun

Genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap. Synonyms: Dipladenia, genus Dipladenia, genus Mandevilla.

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Mandevilla boliviensis

Mandevilla laxa

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"Mandevilla" Quotes from Famous Books

... Librairie de la Collegiale de Saint Paul a Liege au XV'e. Siecle, published by Dr. Stanislas Bormans, in the Bibliophile Belge, Brussels, 1866, p. 236, is catalogued under No. 240: Legenda de Joseph et Asseneth ejus uxore, in papiro. In eodem itinerarium Johannis de Mandevilla ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... example. He sailed from Aden to Calicut in thirty days, and in eighty-three days from Calicut to Zaumotra (Sumatra), a distance of about fourteen hundred leagues. "With this number agree Marco Paulo (Marco Polo) and Juan de Mandevilla (John Mandeville) in the self-same voyages and travels made by them, as is stated very diffusely in their books." The three-year voyage of King Solomon's ships, as recorded in "the third book of the Kings" [187] to "Ofir and Zetin whence they brought the gold to ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 • Emma Helen Blair

Words linked to "Mandevilla" : genus Dipladenia, Apocynaceae, Mandevilla boliviensis, dicot genus, genus Mandevilla, Mandevilla laxa, Dipladenia boliviensis, Dipladenia, family Apocynaceae, dogbane family, Chilean jasmine, magnoliopsid genus, white dipladenia