jacaranda

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jacaranda - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
         [1913 Webster]

jacaranda - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jacaranda
      n 1: an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard
           dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: Brazilian rosewood
           , caviuna wood, jacaranda, Dalbergia nigra]