Usage of "Poinciana gilliesii"

A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana.

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Examples for "poinciana"

Back in town and across the road from the river, the Hotel Brunswick draws visitors into its poinciana-shaded beer garden. 
 The Guardian 

Returning to his room in Vedado, Gilly noticed that the royal poinciana trees in his street had burst into bloom. 
 One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b... 

Here royal poinciana flared gorgeously beside the orange-colored blossoms of wild cassava, and hordes of birds flamed by on brilliant wings. 
 Diane of the Green Van 

I remember lying under our big poinciana tree and trying to come up with theories about why I was so pale and freckled. 
 The Guardian 

They were standing in one corner of the veranda of the Royal Poinciana. 
 Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach; Or, Strange Adventures Among The Ora... 

The Spirit- Bird or the Wakon Bird is the Indian bird of paradise. 
 Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 

The first I will mention was called the superb bird of paradise. 
 In the Eastern Seas 

Another of our pets was called the six-shafted or golden bird of paradise. 
 In the Eastern Seas 

What about the bird of paradise itself, the rightful owner of the plumes? 
 The Red Queen 

The wallpaper had a motif of a bird of paradise in a cage. 
 Black Deutschland 

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Meanings of Poinciana gilliesii in English