jacaranda

English - Turkish

Definition of jacaranda in English Turkish dictionary

{i} mavi tropikal çiçek

{i} jakaranda

pelesenk

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of jacaranda in Turkish Turkish dictionary

Tropikal Amerika'da yetişen orman ağacı

English - English

Definition of jacaranda in English English dictionary

Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, from tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers

The hard, dark wood of these trees

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood

an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black

{i} any of a number of tropical American trees

A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers

Any plant of the genus Jacaranda (family Bignoniaceae), especially the two ornamental trees J. mimosifolia and J. cuspidifolia. Jacarandas are grown widely in warm parts of the world and in greenhouses for their showy blue or violet flowers and attractive, oppositely paired, compound leaves. The genus includes about 50 species native to Central and South America and the West Indies. The name is also applied to several tree species of the genera Machaerium and Dalbergia in the pea family (see legume), the sources of commercial rosewood

Related Terms

jacarandas

plural of jacaranda

Hyphenation

ja·ca·ran·da

Etymology

[ "ja-k&-'ran-d& ] (noun.) circa 1753. New Latin, from Portuguese jacarandá a tree of this genus, from Tupi.