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poinciana

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun poinciana has 2 senses

poinciana(n = noun.plant) subgenus poinciana - small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications; Array

is a kind of rosid dicot genus

is a member of caesalpinia, genus caesalpinia

poinciana(n = noun.plant) bird of paradise, caesalpinia gilliesii, poinciana gilliesii - a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana; Array

is a member of caesalpinia, genus caesalpinia

is a kind of flowering shrub

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CIDE DICTIONARY

poinciana, n. [NL. Named after M. de Poinci, a governor of the French West Indies.].

A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. [1913 Webster]

" The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

poinciana, n. any tropical tree of the genus Poinciana, with bright showy red flowers.

Etymology

mod.L f. M. de Poinci, 17th-c. governor in the West Indies + -ana fem. suffix

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