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Modern Latin: after M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the Antilles + -ana.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
poinciana
Today it means: A tropical tree, of species Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant. Full definition →