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Poinciana
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What's The Definition Of Poinciana?
[n] a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
[n] small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications Synonyms | Synonyms for Poinciana: bird of paradise | Caesalpinia gilliesii | Poinciana gilliesii | subgenus Poinciana Related Terms | Find terms related to Poinciana: See Also | Caesalpinia | flowering shrub | genus Caesalpinia | rosid dicot genus Poinciana In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Note: The genus {Poinciana} is kept up for three trees of
Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.
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