coral tree

English

A coral tree (Erythrina abyssinica). Arumeru, Tanzania.

Etymology

The spiky red flowers resemble coral.

Noun

coral tree (plural coral trees)

1. Any of the trees of the genus Erythrina, of most tropical and subtropical regions.

   Synonym: erythrina

Hypernyms

• tree

Hyponyms

• Indian coral tree (Erythrina variegata)

Translations

tree of the genus Erythrina

• Afrikaans: koraalboom
• Agta:

  Casiguran Dumagat Agta: dapdáp

• Amharic: ቋራ (ḳʷara), ኮርች (korč), ጎርጎ (gorgo)
• Arabic: حَمْرِيَّة f (ḥamriyya), أِرِيتْرِينَة f (ʔirītrīna)
• Azerbaijani: eritrina
• Bajau:

  West Coast Bajau: dadap

• Belarusian: еритри́на f (jeritrína)
• Catalan: eritrina f
• Cebuano: dapdap
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺桐 (zh) (cìtóng)

• Czech: zarděnice f, korálovec m
• Dutch: koraalboom (nl) m, koraalstruik m
• Esperanto: eritrino
• Fijian: drala
• Finnish: korallipuu (fi)
• French: arbre de corail m
• German: Korallenbaum m
• Greek: ερυθρίνα f (erythrína)
• Hungarian: korallfa (hu)
• Indonesian: dedap (id)
• Italian: eritrina f
• Malay: dedap
• Palauan: róro
• Polish: koralodrzew m, erytryna f
• Portuguese: eritrina f
• Quechua: amasisa
• Rarotongan: ngatae
• Russian: эритри́на f (eritrína), кора́лловое де́рево n (korállovoje dérevo)
• Samoan: gatae
• Spanish: anaco (es) m, árbol del coral (es) m
• Sundanese: dadap
• Swedish: korallbuske c
• Tagalog: mana, dapdáp
• Tahitian: ‘atae
• Tok Pisin: palpal
• Tongan: ngatae
• Turkish: mercanağacı
• Ukrainian: еритрі́на f (erytrína)
• Vietnamese: vông nem
• Xhosa: umsintsi

References

• coral tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• correlate