pride of barbados

What does pride of barbados mean?

pride of barbados means "tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana".

What is another word for pride of barbados?

Close synonyms include paradise flower, flamboyant tree, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Poinciana pulcherrima. 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 pride of barbados a common word?

pride of barbados 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pride of barbados come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.