单词 | flame tree |
释义 | flame tree (once / 590966 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n WORD FAMILY flame tree: flame trees USAGE EXAMPLESLipstick-red flame trees were in bloom, and the air was filled with the intoxicating smell of gasoline. The New Yorker(Apr 04, 2016) The blossoms on the flame trees were about to burst open. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies(1994) The streets were wider than Peshawar’s, cleaner, and lined with rows of hibiscus and flame trees. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner(2003) 1 n showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana 2Syn|Hyper Delonix regia, Poinciana regia, flamboyant, peacock flower, royal poinciana angiospermous tree, flowering tree any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary n tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery 3Syn|Hyper Acacia farnesiana, cassie, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle acacia any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia n a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses 4Syn|Hyper Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda, fire tree parasitic plant plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it n north Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves 5Syn|Hyper Brachychiton australis, broad-leaved bottletree bottle tree, bottle-tree an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton n south Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers Syn|Hyper Brachychiton acerifolius, Sterculia acerifolia, flame durrajong bottle tree, bottle-tree an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton |
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