poinciana
Meaning
Noun
- A tropical tree, Delonix regia (species), with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.
- A tropical shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima (species), with bright orange-red flowers, originally native to the Americas and now widely cultivated as an ornamental.
Origin
- Modern Latin: after M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the Antilles + -ana.
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