Jacaranda

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.

    "They passed slowly under the jacaranda trees beginning to bloom lavender over their heads."

  2. 2
    an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black wordnet
  3. 3
    The hard, dark wood of these trees.
  4. 4
    A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.

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bloomsblue jacarandabrazilian rosewoodcaviuna wooddalbergia nigraemblem

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"Jacaranda is the name of a tree."

Etymology

From Portuguese jacarandá, from Old Tupi îacaranda.

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