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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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