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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Erythrina in the pea family, native to and widely cultivated in warm regions, having trifoliolate leaves, showy red or orange flowers, and pods containing brightly colored seeds.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small tree of northern India, North China, Korea, and Japan, Hovenia dulcis, belonging to the buckthorn family.
  • noun A plant of the leguminous genus Erythrina.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany Any of the trees of the genus Erythrina.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental

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