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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 poin·ci·ana /ˌpɔɪn(t)siˈænə, ˌp(w)ɑn(t)-/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Poin·ci·a·na n.  Bot. A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
 Note: ☞ The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Poinciana
      n 1: small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not
           recognized in some classifications [syn: subgenus
            Poinciana]
      2: a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red
         flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: bird
          of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana
          gilliesii]