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INDIAN CORAL TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian coral tree mean?
• INDIAN CORAL TREE (noun)
The noun INDIAN CORAL TREE has 1 sense:
1. small to medium-sized thorny tree of tropical Asia and northern Australia having dense clusters of scarlet or crimson flowers and black seeds
Familiarity information: INDIAN CORAL TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small to medium-sized thorny tree of tropical Asia and northern Australia having dense clusters of scarlet or crimson flowers and black seeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Erythrina Indica; Erythrina variegata; Indian coral tree
Hypernyms ("Indian coral 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)
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