Definition of Indian coral tree

1. Noun. Small to medium-sized thorny tree of tropical Asia and northern Australia having dense clusters of scarlet or crimson flowers and black seeds.

Exact synonyms: Erythrina Indica, Erythrina Variegata
Generic synonyms: Coral Tree, Erythrina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Coral Tree

Indian blanket
Indian breadroot
Indian buffalo
Indian burn
Indian burns
Indian capital
Indian carp
Indian chickweed
Indian chief
Indian chieftain
Indian chocolate
Indian cholera
Indian club
Indian cobra
Indian coral tree
Indian corn
Indian cress
Indian crocus
Indian currant
Indian elephant
Indian elephants
Indian fig
Indian figs
Indian file
Indian flap
Indian ginger
Indian giver
Indian givers
Indian giving

Literary usage of Indian coral tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ad Orientem by Aug Daniel Frederickson (1889)
"... speciosa): Flowers consisting of nearly a hundred crimson and yellow stamens. (Plate X.) Indian Coral tree ..."

2. The Buddhism of Tibet: Or Lamaism, with Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and by Laurence Austine Waddell (1895)
"The god enjoys bliss for almost incalculable time; but when his merit is exhausted then his lake of 1 Identified with the beautiful indian coral tree ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"Don (whose description is a copy of the above) calls it Indian Coral-Tree, and adds : "Tree, twenty or thirty feet ..."

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