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Poinciana
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Poinˊci-a′na
,Noun.
[NL. Named after M. de
Poinci
, a governor of the French West Indies.] (Bot.)
A prickly tropical shrub (
Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima
), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. ☞ The genus
Poinciana
is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.