| Pronunciation: | | `poynsee'anu
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| Matching Terms: | | poinciana gilliesii, poinciana pulcherrima, poinciana regia
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii, subgenus Poinciana |
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| | See Also: | | Caesalpinia, flowering shrub, genus Caesalpinia, rosid dicot genus |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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