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- noun botany Any of the
genus Erythrina ofleguminous flowering plants ; acoral tree .
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Examples
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Many of these stews make creative use of the sparse natural resources at hand, including colorín en pipián, which uses the bright red blossoms of the colorín (erythrina) tree in a typically seed-based Pueblan pipián, and guasmole, which uses the garlicky-tasting seeds found in the pods of the guaje (leucaena) tree.
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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Many of these stews make creative use of the sparse natural resources at hand, including colorín en pipián, which uses the bright red blossoms of the colorín (erythrina) tree in a typically seed-based Pueblan pipián, and guasmole, which uses the garlicky-tasting seeds found in the pods of the guaje (leucaena) tree.
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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Gorgeous, indeed, are the birds and butterflies and flowers; but often when the erythrina and the
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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In the openings there were small trees with gorgeous erythrina-like flowers, glowing begonias, red lilies, a trailer with trumpet-shaped blossoms of canary yellow, and a smaller trailer, which climbs over everything that is not high, entwining itself with the blue Thunbergia, and bearing on single stalks single blossoms, primrose-shaped, of a salmon orange color with a velvety black centre.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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It is usually made of the erythrina, or the breadfruit tree.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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'Tropic Coral': tall erythrina (Erythrina variegate L).
Chapter 10 1996
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'Tropic Coral': tall erythrina (Erythrina variegate L.).
Chapter 8 1996
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'Tropic Coral': tall erythrina (Erythrina variegate L.).
Chapter 8 1990
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The white-wood I take to be the tree Mr. Gregory calls the erythrina.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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They had penetrated up two or three openings in the mangroves; in one of which was found a canoe, similar to that described by Woodcut 3: it was hollowed out of the trunk of the erythrina and was furnished with an outrigger.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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