Definitions for Bauhinia

Bauhinia bau·hin·i·a

Spelling: [baw-hin-ee-uh, boh-in-]
IPA: /bɔˈhɪn i ə, boʊˈɪn-/

Bauhinia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in Bauhinia (aabhiinu).

Definitions for Bauhinia

noun

  1. any of numerous trees, shrubs, or vines of the genus Bauhinia, native to warm regions, having two-lobed leaves and showy, usually white, purple, or reddish flowers, widely planted in southern Florida.

Origin of Bauhinia

New Latin (Linnaeus), named after the brothers Jean Bauhin (1541-1612) and Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624), Swiss botanists; see -ia

Examples for Bauhinia

This is the time to make layers of Honeysuckle, bauhinia, and other climbing and twining shrubs.

The trees are of a small size, principally box and bauhinia.

The principal timber being bauhinia, suggested the name of "bauhinia Plains."

On coming back they distribute to each other leaves of the shami tree (bauhinia racemosa) as a substitute for gold.

He makes rough ropes from the malanar plant, and the bark of the kayyūl tree (bauhinia).

The food is served on platters made of the leaves of the banyan (Ficus bengalensis), Butea frondosa, bauhinia, or plantain.

Besides cultivating, the Savaras collect bauhinia leaves, and sell them to traders for making leaf platters.

The bark of bauhinia variegata, is made use of in Scinde and other parts of Asia.

At 11 came south-east and by east over rich level land, grassed with herbage and wooded with box and bauhinia.

The mopane-tree ('bauhinia') is remarkable for the little shade its leaves afford.

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