noun
native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
• Syn: ↑Queen's crape myrtle, ↑pride-of-India
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lagerstroemia, ↑genus Lagerstroemia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.