noun
handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil
• Syn: ↑scarlet bush, ↑coloradillo, ↑Hamelia patens, ↑Hamelia erecta
• Hypernyms: ↑hamelia
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noun : a tropical American shrub (Hamelia erecta) having edible fruit and often cultivated for its showy scarlet or crimson flowers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.