plumeria

From translingual Plumeria (genus name), from the name of French botanist Charles Plumier. The genus name is a proper noun and accordingly must be capitalised; the lower case "plumeria" is informal notation, not botanical.

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə

plumeria (plural plumerias)

1. frangipani
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     Mrs Horrox told me departees were once presented with a garland of plumeria, but the Mission elders deemed garlands immoral.

• epimural