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.

• Yellow-eyed
  Having yellow eyes.
• 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.
• Namesake
  One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
• Yellowfin
  A large squeteague.
• 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.
• Yellowfish
  A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• FLOWERSTATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
• Branches
  of Branch
• 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.
• 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.
• Prickly
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
• Yellowhammer
  A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scr

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