Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cape_kafferboom

1 sense of cape kafferboom

Sense 1
kaffir boom, Cape kafferboom, Erythrina caffra -- (small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles)
       => coral tree, erythrina -- (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)