bauhinia
/baw-hin-ee-uh, boh-in-/US // bɔˈhɪn i ə, boʊˈɪn- //UK // (bɔːˈhɪnɪə, bəʊ-) //
紫荆花,洋紫荆,紫荆树,紫荆属植物
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of numerous trees, shrubs, or vines of the genus Bauhinia, native to warm regions, having two-lobed leaves and showy, usually white, purple, or reddish flowers, widely planted in southern Florida.
Examples
The mopane-tree ('bauhinia') is remarkable for the little shade its leaves afford.
Our encampment was at a creek on the south side of a slight rise, with Bauhinia trees, and near good water-holes.
The daup (bauhinia) is a small, white, semiflosculous flower, with a faint smell.
The trees upon it are chiefly bauhinia, and stunted box and gumtrees, without ironbark.
At 11 came south-east and by east over rich level land, grassed with herbage and wooded with box and bauhinia.
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