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# buddleia

«buddleia» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bush with long, cone-shaped clusters of purple, white…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a buddleia, buddleias; also buddleja)

### meaning for a pupil

A bush with long, cone-shaped clusters of purple, white or pink flowers that attract many butterflies; also called the butterfly bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons it appears in gardens and wild places, especially in the UK, where it grows on railway sides and old walls. It is loved by butterflies but can spread too much. Phrases: "butterfly bush", "a purple buddleia".

### examples

- Butterflies crowded on the buddleia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/#x1)
- A buddleia was growing out of the old wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/#x2)
- We planted a buddleia to attract butterflies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/#x3)
- The buddleia flowers smell of honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/#x4)
- Buddleia can spread fast and push out wild plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/#x5)

### note

Spelled buddleia or buddleja. Pronounced "BUD-lee-uh". It is named after a man called Adam Buddle.

### In the corpora

- [Buddleia, called the butterfly bush, is full of nectar and attracts many butterflies to a garden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «buddleia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buddleia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.