CRY-BABY TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cry-baby tree mean? 

• CRY-BABY TREE (noun)
  The noun CRY-BABY TREE has 1 sense:

1. small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered

  Familiarity information: CRY-BABY TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRY-BABY TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ceibo; common coral tree; cry-baby tree; crybaby tree; Erythrina crista-galli

Hypernyms ("cry-baby tree" is a kind of...):

coral tree; erythrina (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)