Look up: jacaranda

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   Jacaranda
   (Green Ebony, Sharp-Leaved Jacaranda) This tender tree is a native of South America. J. acutifolia (Green Ebony and Sharp-leaved Jacaranda) is a beautiful, decorative tree growing from 25 to 50 feet tall. This tree can be grown along streets or as lawn ornaments. This tree can only be grown in frost-free climates, or while it is small, in containers indoors. The Jacaranda will develop many trunks unless pruned to have only one while it is young. The pinnate leaves of this tree are feathery-looki...
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   Jacaranda
   The jacaranda is a genus of American tropical ornamental trees.
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   Jacaranda
   Jac`a·ran'da noun [ Braz.; confer Spanish & Portuguese jacaranda .] (Botany) (a) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood , tiger wood , and violet wood . (b) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers.
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   jacaranda
   <botany> The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood. ... A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers. ... Origin: Braz.; cf. Sp. & Pg. Jacaranda. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   Jacaranda
   `Jacaranda` (pronounced , , or ) is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The genus name is also used as the common name. The species are shrubs to large trees ranging in size from 2-30 m tall. The leaves are bipinnate in most species, pinnate or simple in a few species. The flowers are produced in conspicuous larg...
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   Jacaranda
   • (n.) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers. • (n.) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.
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   jacaranda
   (from the article `jacaranda`) The name jacaranda is also applied to several tree species of the genus Machaerium of the pea family (Fabaceae), from which some of the commercial ... ...are the Honduras rosewood, Dalbergia stevensoni, and the Brazilian rosewood, principally D. nigra, a leguminous tree up to 125 feet (38 metres) ... [2...
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   jacaranda
   any plant of the genus Jacaranda (family Bignoniaceae), especially the two ornamental trees J. mimosifolia and J. cuspidifolia. They are widely grown ...
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   jacaranda
   jacaranda (jăk"urăn'du) : see bignonia.
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