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Caesalpinia

noun

Small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana. Synonym: genus Caesalpinia.

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"Caesalpinia" Quotes from Famous Books

... infancy were wont to use such a neat means of charming away fretfulness. The toy is a tiny spherical basket of neatly interwoven thin strips of cane from one of the creeping palms, in which is enclosed one of the smooth, hard, lead-coloured seeds of the CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA. The rattle, which is known by the name of "Djawn," seems to be quite as effective as the more elaborate but less neat varieties employed to amaze and pacify the infants of civilisation. Similar seeds are used by Arabian children for necklaces, hence ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

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Words linked to "Caesalpinia" : flamboyant tree, Caesalpinioideae, brazilwood, divi-divi, poinciana, Poinciana gilliesii, pride of barbados, Mysore thorn, brazilian ironwood, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, bonduc, Poinciana pulcherrima, bird of paradise, bonduc tree, peachwood, peach-wood, rosid dicot genus, paradise flower, subgenus Poinciana, pernambuco wood