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coral tree
noun
- any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Erythrina, of the legume family, having large clusters of pealike flowers.
coral tree
noun
- any of various thorny, tropical trees of the leguminous genus Erythrina, having bright red flowers and reddish shiny seeds
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Origin of coral tree1
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Example Sentences
These make merry among the flowers of the coral tree, which appear first in South India, and last in the Punjab.
I have had lent me a young Coral-tree (Erythrina), which is very sickly, yet shows odd sleep movements.
It settled on a crimson hibiscus, hanging like a flame against the pale stem of a coral tree.
And all these cups are joined together into a common branch, the result of which is the formation of a beautiful coral tree.
Erythrìnas (Coral tree), a genus containing about thirty species of leguminose, scarlet-flowering plants.
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