Quisqualis

noun

Quis·​qual·​is

kwə̇ˈskwälə̇s

: a small genus of tropical Asiatic, Indo-Malayan, and African woody vines (family Combretaceae) having red or orange spicate flowers with a superior calyx whose limb is deciduous from the long tube and a fruit possessed of five wings see rangoon creeper

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin quis who + qualis of what kind

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