Definitions for Poinciana

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Poinciana poin·ci·an·a

Spelling: [poin-see-an-uh]

IPA: /ˌpɔɪn siˈæn ə/

Poinciana is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in Poinciana (aaciinnop).

Definitions for Poinciana

noun

1. royal poinciana.
2. any of several other tropical trees of the legume family, with showy flowers, as Caesalpina pulcherrima (dwarf poinciana) or Peltophorum pterocarpum (yellow poinciana)

Origin of Poinciana

1725-35; New Latin; named after M. de Poinci, 17th-century governor of the French Antilles; see -an, -a²

Examples for Poinciana

By the day it'd be twelve dollars and up for two at the Breakers, and fourteen dollars and up at the poinciana.

In Nicaragua, malinche is also the name of a tree, a species of poinciana, which bears a handsome red flower.

The pulp of the pods of the Carob tree is eatable; but that of poinciana is said to be injurious.

At nine o'clock next mornin' the good ship Constitution stopped at the poinciana dock w'ile we piled aboard.