Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COR'AL-TREE
COR'AL-TREE, n.
A genus of plants, Erythrina, of several species, natives of Africa and America. They are all shrubby flowering plants, adorned chiefly with trifoliate or three-lobed leaves, and scarlet spikes of papilionaceous flowers.
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