peacock flower

Questions about peacock flower

What does peacock flower mean?

peacock flower means "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".

What is another word for peacock flower?

Close synonyms include royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame tree, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia. 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 peacock flower a common word?

peacock flower 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.