jacaranda

From Portuguese jacarandá, from Old Tupi îacaranda.

jacaranda (plural jacarandas)

2. Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.
   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 147:

     They passed slowly under the jacaranda trees beginning to bloom lavender over their heads.

3. The hard, dark wood of these trees.
4. A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ka.ʁɑ̃.da/

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jacaranda m (plural jacarandas)

1. jacaranda (Jacaranda)

   Hyponym: jacaranda à feuilles de mimosa

2. (Réunion) synonym of jacaranda à feuilles de mimosa (Jacaranda mimosifolia D. Don)^[1]

• jacaranda à feuilles de mimosa

• palissandre

• “jacaranda” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “jacaranda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French jacaranda.

jacaranda m (plural jacaranda)

1. jacaranda

jacaranda f (plural jacarandas)

1. jacaranda

jacaranda f

1. feminine singular of jacarando

• “jacaranda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024