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poinciana
CIDE DICTIONARY
poinciana, n. [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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