flame tree

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1. tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	acacia,
definition	:	any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus acacia,
definition	:	large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa (noun.plant)

2. south Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bottle tree, bottle-tree, bottle tree, bottle-tree,
definition	:	an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton (noun.plant)

3. 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 (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	angiospermous tree, flowering tree,
definition	:	any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	delonix, genus delonix,
definition	:	evergreen or deciduous trees of tropical Africa and India (noun.plant)

4. a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	parasitic plant,
definition	:	plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus nuytsia, nuytsia,
definition	:	one species (noun.plant)

5. 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 (noun.plant)

derivation	:	aureate, flamboyant, florid,
definition	:	elaborately or excessively ornamented (adj.all)

derivation	:	aureate, flamboyant, florid,
definition	:	elaborately or excessively ornamented (adj.all)

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