Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Bignoniaceæ, type of the tribe Tecomeæ.
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Examples
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He had disdained the flamboyance of pink kachnar, the rich orange of tecoma.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He had disdained the flamboyance of pink kachnar, the rich orange of tecoma.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He had disdained the flamboyance of pink kachnar, the rich orange of tecoma.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The gorgeous blue swallow-tail (PAPILIO ULYSSES) seems to have a fancy for yellow, for it pays frequent visits to the golden trumpets of the tecoma and the alamanda.
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The creepers had had time to twine round the massive posts in those fifteen years, and some even lay in great masses on the verandah roof; tecoma, pink and salmon-coloured; purple bougainvillea, and the snowy mandevillea clusters.
A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918
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The creepers had had time to twine round thin massive posts in those fifteen years, and some even lay in great masses on the verandah roof; tecoma, pink and salmon-coloured; purple bougainvillea, and the snowy mandevillea clusters.
A Little Bush Maid 1910
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Taylor, A.D., quoted tecoma species tennis-screen tent-caterpillar terracas
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The yellow tecoma, a choice exotic in America, shed its seeds upon the sow thistle, a salad, and the ape or wild taro.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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The gorgeous blue swallow-tail (PAPILIO ULYSSES) seems to have a fancy for yellow, for it pays frequent visits to the golden trumpets of the tecoma and the alamanda.
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Her dress was of white mull, with lace gathered around the neck and wristbands; a delicate fringy fern leaf was caught by the cameo that pinned the lace collar, and around the heavy coil of hair at the back of her head, Hattie had twined a spray of scarlet tecoma.
St. Elmo 1872
mollusque commented on the word tecoma
He was looking a little sideways when he said this, towards the window over the sink and the tecoma bush that fretted against the screen.
Raymond Chandler, 1953, The Long Goodbye, chapter 5
September 5, 2009