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| 1. | royal poinciana. |
| 2. | any of several other tropical trees of the legume family, with showy flowers, as Caesalpina pulcherrima (dwarf poinciana) or Peltophorum pterocarpum (yellow poinciana). |
| poin·ci·an·a (poin'sē-ān'ə, -ä'nə) n. See royal poinciana. [New Latin Poinciāna, genus name, after M. De Poinci, 17th-century governor of French West Indies.] |
| royal poinciana n. A tropical and semitropical tree (Delonix regia) native to Madagascar, having bipinnately compound leaves, clusters of large scarlet flowers, and long pods. Also called flamboyant, poinciana. |
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