Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Jacaranda"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jacaranda \Jac`a*ran"da\, n. [Braz.; cf. Sp. & Pg. jacaranda.]
(Bot.)
(a) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees,
which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger
wood, and violet wood.
(b) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy
trumpet-shaped flowers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
jacaranda
n : an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard
dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: {Brazilian
rosewood}, {caviuna wood}, {Dalbergia nigra}]
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