orchid tree

1. 1.

   small East Indian tree having orchid-like flowers and hard dark wood

   Synonymsmountain ebonyBauhinia variegata

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofBauhinia

Questions about orchid tree

What does orchid tree mean?

orchid tree means "small East Indian tree having orchid-like flowers and hard dark wood".

What is another word for orchid tree?

Close synonyms include mountain ebony, Bauhinia variegata. 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 orchid tree a common word?

orchid 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.