NOUN
- tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery
- north Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves
- a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
- showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
- south Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers
How To Use flame tree In A Sentence
- Outside, under the flame trees, women sipping milky tea shelled beans and sold Nile Perch broth or a peanut sauce to go with a starchy-green banana mush called matoke. Richard C. Morais: The Poetry of Pork
- A dozen native trees will be saved, including melaleucas, coolamons, conifers, a flame tree and a lilly pilly.
- After the neighbor's mare foaled amid a flood of amniotic fluid, the estrogen left her urine and Timothy's flame trees died.
- The flame trees have burst into blossom and, at night, the flowers of the mahua tree fall. Times, Sunday Times
- Among the plants that have lovely vermillion hues to go with this season are the dwarf coral tree and the African flame tree.
- I was one up on the panellists in that I've managed to grow a Chilean Flame Tree embothrium in our garden. Spring in the Garden.