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Meanings of flame tree in English
Portuguese
acácia amarela 
Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery.
Portuguese
delonix regia 
Showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana.
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Examples for "cassie"
Examples for "cassie"
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Cassie, of course, was moving in this direction a few years ago.
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Reader Cassie Rousseau writes to us: I saw this in another house.
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Cassie had had high hopes for the move into the new house.
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Cassie finally got help, she said, thanks to her insurance through Medicaid.
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The truth was, he had no idea how Cassie might have changed.
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Here the river's banks are smothered in thickets of huisache, ebony, mesquite, oak, and alamo.
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If he looked back, she would be there at the picnic table under the huisache tree.
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He reached the shelter of the mimosa bush unperceived and there waited.
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Private Conolly had planted his rifle-stock downwards in a mimosa bush.
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The banks of the river very uninteresting-flat ,desert ,andmimosa bush.
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At last the horse dashed madly into a mimosa bush, and stuck fast.
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Hobson turned aside and stooped to cut a branch from a mimosa bush.
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Then I caught a glimpse of gold from the laburnums, of purple from the lilacs, of white from the sweet acacia trees.
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Our road lay through a lightly timbered country, and here and there patches of scrub consisting of a sweet- scented wattle.
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I now learn that this very mimosa ( Acacia farnesiana) originates in tropical America, and was undoubtedly unknown in ancient Egypt.
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Acacia Farnesiana: A, leaf during the day; B, the same leaf at night.
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Although the pinnae of Acacia Farnesiana do not converge much, they sink downwards.
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Occasionally the longer axes of the several ellipses extend in different directions, of which Acacia Farnesiana offered a good instance.
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A bush of Acacia Farnesiana appears at night as if covered with little dangling bits of string instead of leaves.
South Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers.
Portuguese
nuytsia A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses.
Usage of flame tree in English
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The flame trees have seen the worst things man has to offer.
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Flame trees, coconut palms, and a ball-point-blue Atlantic composed the background.
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Singing at the top of our lungs to Flame Trees.
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Lightning branched through the darkness like flaming trees.
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Flame trees, chinaberries, and thickets of hibiscus, oleander, and passion lilac sprout from nooks where indoors and outdoors now blend.
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Which, even now, lacks the flame trees, 30-degree temperatures, and nightly chorus of cicadas that are features of his current domicile.
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The sun shone in the streets, the flame trees brightened the far hills, the deep verandahs shaded the shop windows of the town.
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The New Yorker, June 5, 1965 P. 132 At Aqueduct, Our Michael won by six lengths from Timely Move, with Flame Tree third.