Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A tropical tree, of species Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A tropical shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, with bright orange-red flowers, originally native to the Americas and now widely cultivated as an ornamental.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flowering shrub
noun
small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: subgenus Poinciana
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rosid dicot genus
History
Modern Latin: after M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the Antilles + -ana.
