jacarandá

n. any of a number of tropical American trees

Jacaranda (pronounced , , or ) is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The genus name is also used as the common name.The species are shrubs to large trees ranging in size from 2-30 m tall. The leaves are bipinnate in most species, pinnate or simple in a few species. The flowers are produced in conspicuous large panicles, each flower with a five-lobed blue to purple-blue corolla; a few species have white flowers. The fruit is an oblong to oval flattened capsule containing numerous slender seeds. The genus differs from other genera in the Bignoniaceae in having a staminode that is longer than the stamens, tricolpate pollen, and a chromosome number of 18.
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Prosopis kuntzei (synonym Prosopis casadensis) is a South American leguminous tree species that inhabits the westernmost Gran Chaco forests covering areas of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, where it acts as natural component. It has also been able to colonize the nearby pasture sabanas. It's commonly referred to as itín, palo mataco, carandá or barba de tigre. It is adapted to arid climate, but can also survive flooded ground for a long time.
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Noun
1. an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
(synonym) Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra
(hypernym) rosewood, rosewood tree
(member-holonym) Dalbergia, genus Dalbergia

n. jacaranda, any of a number of tropical American trees

n. jacaranda, any of a number of tropical American trees