ERYTHRINA CAFFRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Erythrina caffra mean? 

• ERYTHRINA CAFFRA (noun)
  The noun ERYTHRINA CAFFRA has 1 sense:

1. small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles

  Familiarity information: ERYTHRINA CAFFRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERYTHRINA CAFFRA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cape kafferboom; Erythrina caffra; kaffir boom

Hypernyms ("Erythrina caffra" 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)