bird-of-paradise
Nouns
- (n) a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii, poinciana,
- (n) ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird Strelitzia reginae,
- (n) any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area