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poinciana

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun poinciana has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

poincianan. [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]

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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