coral tree

1. 1.

   any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental

   Synonymserythrina

   Broadertree

   Narrowerkaffir boomcoral bean treeceiboIndian coral treecork tree

   Part ofgenus Erythrina

Questions about coral tree

What does coral tree mean?

coral tree means "any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental".

What is another word for coral tree?

Close synonyms include erythrina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coral tree a common word?

coral tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.