Crossword-Solution: POINCIANA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poinciana | n. | A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “POINCIANA”
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| AUSTRALIAN red-flowering tree | 1 answer |
| Bing Crosby hit in which "your branches speak to me of love" | 1 answer |
| tropical leguminous tree with large orange or red flowers | 1 answer |
| SHOWY tree | 2 answers |
| Tree with showy flowers | 2 answers |
| small tree size shrub with attractive multihued flowers | 2 answers |
| Showy, scarlet flower | 2 answers |
| araroba relative | 12 answers |
| RED-flowering plant | 21 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN shrub/tree | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
EINDVI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with POINCIANA (5)
Its smooth lawns, sloping steeply to the sea, are now brilliant with the gaudy parrot-like blossoms of the "flame of the forest," the gorgeous Poinciana regia, with which they are studded.
Cocoa-nut trees fringe the river bank for some distance, and there are some large, spreading trees loaded with the largest and showiest crimson blossoms I ever saw, throwing even the gaudy Poinciana regia into the shade; but nothing can look very attractive here, with the swamp in front and the jungle behind, where the rhinoceros is said to roam undisturbed.
Caesalpinia, Hoematoxylon, Gleditschia, Poinciana.—The leaflets of two species of Caesalpinia (Tribe 13) rose at night.
Though it be midwinter, the land is gorgeous with blossoms; with glowing rose, fuchsia, and geranium; with snowy datura, jasmine, belladonna, stephanotis, lily, and camelia; with golden bignonia and grevillea; with purple passion-creeper; with scarlet coral and poinciana; with blue _jacaranda_ (rosewood), solanum and lavender; and with sight-dazzling bougainvillea of five varieties, in mauve, pink, and orange sheets.
KRISHNA CHURA (_Poinciana Pulcherrima_).--A pretty small flower, which, as its name imports resembles the head ornament of Krishna.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1974–2010).