jacaranda

jac·a·ran·da  (jk-rnd)

n.

1. Any of several tropical American trees or shrubs of the genus Jacaranda, having pinnately compound, opposite leaves and panicles of pale purple flowers with funnel-shaped corollas.

2. The wood of this tree or a wood similar to it.

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[Portuguese jacarandá, from Tupi, having a hard core, hard branch.]

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jacaranda [ˌdʒækəˈrændə]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any bignoniaceous tree of the tropical American genus Jacaranda, having fernlike leaves and pale purple flowers and widely cultivated in temperate areas of Australia

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the fragrant ornamental wood of any of these trees

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several related or similar trees or their wood

[from Portuguese, from Tupi-Guarani yacarandá]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

jacaranda - an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra Dalbergia, genus Dalbergia - large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers rosewood tree, rosewood - any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black

Translations

jacaranda [ˌdʒækəˈrændə] N → jacarandá m

jacaranda

n → Jakaranda(baum) m; (= wood) → Jakarandaholz nt, → Palisander (→ holz nt) m