noun
- A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana.
- synonyms: poinciana, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii
- Ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird.
- synonyms: Strelitzia reginae
- Any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area. .
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