[ほうおうぼく;ホウオウボク, hououboku ; hououboku] (n) (uk) royal poinciana (Delonix regia); flamboyant [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Poinciana
n 1: small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not
recognized in some classifications [syn: {Poinciana},
{subgenus Poinciana}]
2: a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red
flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: {bird of
paradise}, {poinciana}, {Caesalpinia gilliesii}, {Poinciana
gilliesii}]
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