poinciana

poinciana is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
2. noun. a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
3. noun. small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications

Common word forms

poincianas

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