flamboyant tree

flamboyant tree
noun
tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
Hypernyms: ↑flowering shrub
Member Holonyms: ↑Caesalpinia, ↑genus Caesalpinia

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