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Definition of Pink shower
1. Noun. Tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or rose-colored flowers; used as an ornamental.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pink Shower
Literary usage of Pink shower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All about Hawaii (1921)
"By the introduction of flowering trees and plants, this seed list is being readily
extended and now embraces the Golden, and the pink shower, Inga, ..."
2. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"Another species known locally as the "pink shower" resembles the latter in many
ways, but has the pods divided off with transverse diaphragms separating the ..."
3. Have We a Far Eastern Policy? by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1920)
"... or the wistaria-shaped blossoms of three trees meeting together from distant
points,—the golden shower of Ceylon, the pink shower of the Caribbean Sea, ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"pink shower. Lfts. 10-20, oblong, abrupt at either end, more or less pubescent
beneath and above: fls. in long drooping axillary racemes, rose- colored, ..."
5. Blue Waters and Green: And the Far East Today by Frederick Dumont Smith (1907)
"The Bougainvillea, a tree with purple flowers; the "pink shower" and the "yellow
shower" trees ..."
6. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1885)
"... and every now and then the wild roses sent a pink shower fluttering down to
the flat roofs felow, where maize and wheat were spread out to dry in the ..."
7. Far Away and Long Ago by William Henry Hudson (1918)
"... so rapidly that the flowers came down in a pink shower, and in this way in
half a minute every bird made a twig bare where he could sit perched at ease. ..."
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