英语词汇poinciana的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

poinciana. The tropical royal poinciana with its brilliant, long-clawed scarlet or yellow-striped flowers is probably the most striking of all cultivated trees. Popular in Florida and California as well as its native Madagascar, the broadheaded tree grows from 20 to 40 feet high and is sometimes called the Delonix (Greek for long claw) and the peacock flower. Poincia- na regia, as well as the entire Poinciana genus, containing sev- eral showy plants of the pea family, was named by Linnaeus in honor of M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the French West Indies, where the tree is also widely grown and admired. Another, more descriptive name for the tree is flame-of-the-forest.

词汇	poinciana
词源	poinciana. The tropical royal poinciana with its brilliant, long-clawed scarlet or yellow-striped flowers is probably the most striking of all cultivated trees. Popular in Florida and California as well as its native Madagascar, the broadheaded tree grows from 20 to 40 feet high and is sometimes called the Delonix (Greek for long claw) and the peacock flower. Poincia- na regia, as well as the entire Poinciana genus, containing sev- eral showy plants of the pea family, was named by Linnaeus in honor of M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the French West Indies, where the tree is also widely grown and admired. Another, more descriptive name for the tree is flame-of-the-forest.
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