BIRD-OF-PARADISE


Meaning of BIRD-OF-PARADISE in English

noun Date: circa 1884 an ornamental plant ( Strelitzia reginae of the family Strelitziaceae) native to southern Africa that has scapes terminating in a horizontal bract from which emerges an upright flower having three orange or yellow sepals and three very irregular blue petals

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