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    KAFFIR BOOM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shinglesplay

    Synonyms:

    Cape kafferboom; Erythrina caffra; kaffir boom

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("kaffir boom" is a kind of...):

    coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Small semi-evergreen tree of South Africa having dense clusters of clear scarlet flowers and red seedsplay

    Synonyms:

    Erythrina lysistemon; kaffir boom; Transvaal kafferboom

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("kaffir boom" is a kind of...):

    coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)

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