noun. Any of several tropical American trees or shrubs of the genus Jacaranda, having pinnately compound leaves and lavender-blue funnel-shaped flowers.

noun. Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, from tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers

noun. The hard, dark wood of these trees

"The French have given the name jacaranda to rose-wood, under the idea that the plant called jacaranda by the Brazilians yields it, which is not the case; "the same word has perhaps been the origin of palisander -- palixander, badly written.""