Orange vs. Poinciana — What's the Difference?

A town in southern France, on the River Rhône, home of the ancestors of the Dutch royal house.

The royal poinciana.

Relating to the Orange Order

A tropical tree, Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.

Any of several evergreen trees of the genus Citrus of Southeast Asia, widely cultivated in warm regions and having fragrant white flowers and round fruit with a yellowish or reddish rind and a sectioned, pulpy interior, especially the sweet orange and the bitter orange.

A tropical shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, with bright orange-red flowers, originally native to the Americas and now widely cultivated as an ornamental.

The fruit of any of these trees, having a sweetish, acidic juice.

A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

Any of several similar plants, such as the Osage orange and the mock orange.

Small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between red and yellow, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 590 to 630 nanometers; any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium lightness and moderate saturation.

A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

Of the color orange.

Made from oranges.

Tasting or smelling like oranges.

(countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.

(countable) The fruit of the orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour.

The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

Various drinks:

(uncountable) Orange juice.

(uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.

(uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.

Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

(transitive) To color orange.

(intransitive) To become orange.

The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (Citrus Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.

The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.

The color of an orange; reddish yellow.

Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.

Round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

Any of a range of colors between red and yellow

Any citrus tree bearing oranges

Any pigment producing the orange color

A river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean

Similar to the color of a ripe orange