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Webster 1913 Edition
Jacaranda
Jacˊa-ran′da
,Noun.
[Braz.; cf. Sp. & Pg.
jacaranda
.] (Bot.)
(a)
The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called
king wood
, tiger wood
, and violet wood
. (b)
A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers.
