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bauhinia
[ baw-hin-ee-uh, boh-in- ]
noun
- 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.
bauhinia
/ bɔːˈhɪnɪə; bəʊ- /
noun
- any climbing or shrubby leguminous plant of the genus Bauhinia , of tropical and warm regions, widely cultivated for ornament
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bauhinia1
C18: New Latin, named after Jean and Gaspard Bauhin , 16th-century French herbalists
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Example Sentences
The mopane-tree ('bauhinia') is remarkable for the little shade its leaves afford.
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Our encampment was at a creek on the south side of a slight rise, with Bauhinia trees, and near good water-holes.
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The daup (bauhinia) is a small, white, semiflosculous flower, with a faint smell.
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The trees upon it are chiefly bauhinia, and stunted box and gumtrees, without ironbark.
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At 11 came south-east and by east over rich level land, grassed with herbage and wooded with box and bauhinia.
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