flame tree
either of two trees, Brachychiton acerifolius or B. australis, native to Australia, having clusters of bright scarlet flowers.
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How to use flame tree in a sentence
He halted under a flame-tree, and a man came out of the darkness and laid a hand upon his knee.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete | Gilbert ParkerThe “flame tree” is a most conspicuous feature of an Illawarra landscape, the largest racemes of crimson red suggesting the name.
Instead, they saw him swing lightly from the branch of a flame tree and drop to the ground.
The Golden Skull | John Blaine
British Dictionary definitions for flame tree
any of various tropical trees with red or orange flowers, such as flame-of-the-forest
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