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FLAME TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery
Synonyms:
Acacia farnesiana; cassie; flame tree; huisache; mimosa bush; scented wattle; sweet acacia; sweet wattle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flame tree" is a kind of...):
acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)
Holonyms ("flame tree" is a member of...):
genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)
Sense 2
Meaning:
South Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers
Synonyms:
Brachychiton acerifolius; flame durrajong; flame tree; Sterculia acerifolia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flame tree" is a kind of...):
bottle-tree; bottle tree (an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton)
Sense 3
Meaning:
North Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves
Synonyms:
Brachychiton australis; broad-leaved bottletree; flame tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flame tree" is a kind of...):
bottle-tree; bottle tree (an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Delonix regia; flamboyant; flame tree; peacock flower; Poinciana regia; royal poinciana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flame tree" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Holonyms ("flame tree" is a member of...):
Delonix; genus Delonix (evergreen or deciduous trees of tropical Africa and India)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
Synonyms:
Christmas tree; fire tree; flame tree; Nuytsia floribunda
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flame tree" is a kind of...):
parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)
Holonyms ("flame tree" is a member of...):
genus Nuytsia; Nuytsia (one species)
