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Found 2 items, similar to Poinciana.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Poinciana
Poinciana
n 1: small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not
recognized in some classifications [syn:
subgenus Poinciana
]
2: a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red
flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn:
bird of paradise
,
Caesalpinia gilliesii,
Poinciana gilliesii
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Poinciana
Poinciana
\Poin`ci*a"na\, n. [NL. Named after M. de Poinci, a
governor of the French West Indies.] (Bot.)
A prickly tropical shrub (
C[ae]salpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima
), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy
orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The genus
Poinciana is kept up for three trees of
Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.
[1913 Webster]
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