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CIDE DICTIONARY

flower-fence

CIDE DICTIONARY

flower-fencen. 
     A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana pulcherrima, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.  Baird.  [1913 Webster]

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