jac·a·ran·da (j k  -rn d)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. [Portuguese jacarandá, from Tupi, having a hard core, hard branch.] |
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]
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| Noun | 1. |  jacaranda - an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with blackDalbergia, 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 |
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jacaranda
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