yellow elder

noun

: a tropical American shrub or small tree (Tecoma stans) of the family Bignoniaceae that has compound leaves and profuse clusters of yellow funnel-shaped flowers and in the tropics is widely planted for ornament

called also shower of gold, yellow trumpet flower

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