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poinciana(dictionary)

thee (oh) and Poinciana (medicine)


thee (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: the]
a word meaning 'you', used as the object of a sentence

Poinciana (medicine)


poinciana
<botany> A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.

Origin: NL. Named after M. De Poinci, a governor of the French West Indies.

Source: Websters Dictionary