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COLORADILLO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coloradillo mean?
• COLORADILLO (noun)
The noun COLORADILLO has 1 sense:
1. handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil
Familiarity information: COLORADILLO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
coloradillo; Hamelia erecta; Hamelia patens; scarlet bush; scarlet hamelia
Hypernyms ("coloradillo" is a kind of...):
hamelia (any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia)
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