bauhinia

[ baw-hin-ee-uh, boh-in- ]

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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

/ bəʊ-; bɔːˈhɪnɪə /

any climbing or shrubby leguminous plant of the genus Bauhinia , of tropical and warm regions, widely cultivated for ornament

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

C18: New Latin, named after Jean and Gaspard Bauhin , 16th-century French herbalists

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

Our encampment was at a creek on the south side of a slight rise, with Bauhinia trees, and near good water-holes.

The daup (bauhinia) is a small, white, semiflosculous flower, with a faint smell.

The trees upon it are chiefly bauhinia, and stunted box and gumtrees, without ironbark.

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

April 18, 2024petrichor

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