yellow poinciana

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Definitions of yellow poinciana words

noun yellow poinciana royal poinciana. 1
noun yellow poinciana any of several other tropical trees of the legume family, with showy flowers, as Caesalpina pulcherrima (dwarf poinciana) or Peltophorum pterocarpum (yellow poinciana) 1

before 1725

One of the 49% newest English words

1725-35; < New Latin; named after M. de Poinci, 17th-century governor of the French Antilles; see -an, -a2

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