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noun
Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: plumeria
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A flower of these plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A perfume obtained from this plant or imitating the odour of its flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of frangipane (“cream made from ground almonds; pastry filled with this cream”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
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noun
any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: frangipanni
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: pagoda tree, temple tree, Plumeria acutifolia, West Indian jasmine, Plumeria alba
History
From French frangipane, from Italian frangipane. Possibly named after Muzio Frangipane, a 16th-century marquess of the Italian noble Frangipani family, who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name Frangipane derives from frangere (“to break”) + pane (“bread”), a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
