Word Meanings - FLOWERFENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

• Yellowwood
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian F
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Yellow-eyed
  Having yellow eyes.
• Yellowwort
  A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Namesake
  One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
• Yellowfin
  A large squeteague.
• FLOWERSTATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
• Branches
  of Branch
• Yellowfish
  A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• HAVIER
  A castrated deer. Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport.
• Havana
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar
• Indies
  A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.
• Poinciana
  A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
• Yellow-golds
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
• NAMBYPAMBY
  Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.

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