bird of paradise   (TTS Sound)

The noun bird of paradise has 3 senses

• bird of paradise, poinciana, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii -- (a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)


• bird of paradise, Strelitzia reginae -- (ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird)


• bird of paradise -- (any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area)