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Any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds
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erythrina
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n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Erythrina'' of leguminous flowering plants; a coral tree.
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n. any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental [syn: coral tree ]
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Erythrina is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae . It contains about 130 species , which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees , growing up to in height. The generic name is derived from the Greek ...
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Erythrina \Er`y*thri"na\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'eryqro`s red.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.
Usage examples of erythrina.
This was plainly seen to be the case with the large terminal leaflets of Desmodium, Erythrina and Amphicarpaea, and is probably common to all leaflets provided with a pulvinus.
Oxalis, Amphicarpaea, two species of Erythrina, a Cassia, Passiflora, Euphorbia and Marsilea.
Erythrina corallodendron made four ellipses on the first day of observation and only a single one on the third, apparently owing to having been kept not sufficiently illuminated and perhaps not warm enough.