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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A West Indian leguminous shrub, Calliandra purpurea. Its flowers are in heads, the stamens, as in the genus generally, united into a tube and long-exserted, forming the conspicuous part.
Wiktionary
- n. botany A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies, whose flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
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- soldier + wood (Wiktionary)
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See The Wood For The Trees
Tree names that end in -wood. Anything ending in -wood that only refers to the wood, eg. applewood, firewood, etc. shall not be planted in this garden.
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