any of several other tropical trees of the legume family, with showy flowers, as Caesalpina pulcherrima(dwarf poinciana) or Peltophorum pterocarpum(yellow poinciana).
Origin: 1725–35; < NL; named after M. de Poinci, 17th-century governor of the French Antilles; see -an, -a2
[poin-see-an-uh] 
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