POINCIANA


Meaning of POINCIANA in English

[poin.ci.ana] n [NL, fr. De Poinci, 17th cent. governor of part of the French West Indies] (1731): any of several ornamental tropical leguminous trees or shrubs (genera Caesalpinia and Delonix) formerly placed in their own genus (Poinciana)--compare royal poinciana

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