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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
flamboyant
showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar;
widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers;
sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
• Syn:
royal poinciana, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia
• Hypernyms:
angiospermous tree, flowering tree
• Member Holonyms:
Delonix, genus Delonix
1. marked by ostentation but often tasteless
- a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet
- a splashy half-page ad
• Syn:
showy, splashy
• Similar to:
ostentatious, pretentious
• Derivationally related forms:
splash (for: splashy), splashiness (for: splashy), show (for: showy), showiness (for: showy), flamboyance
2. elaborately or excessively ornamented
- flamboyant handwriting
- the senator's florid speech
• Syn:
aureate, florid
• Similar to:
fancy
• Derivationally related forms:
flamboyance, floridness (for: florid)
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