Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jacaranda

Jacaranda , noun

[Braz.; compare Sp. & Portuguese jacaranda.]

(a)
(Botany) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.
(b)
(Botany) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers.