kwə̇ˈskwälə̇s noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin quis who + qualis of what kind — more at who , quality
: a small genus of tropical Asiatic, Indo-Malayan, and African woody vines (family Combretaceae) having red or orange spicate flowers with a superior calyx whose limb is deciduous from the long tube and a fruit possessed of five wings — see rangoon creeper