Tabebuia is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tabebuia in a sentence
Tabebuia meaning
Any of the plants in the genus Tabebuia.
Using Tabebuia
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of the plants in the genus Tabebuia.
- In the example corpus, tabebuia often appears in combinations such as: of tabebuia, tabebuia is, tabebuia and.
Context around Tabebuia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 15.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tabebuia
- In this selection, "tabebuia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 15.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, poui, divided, lumber, rosea, sprout and sensu stand out and add context to how "tabebuia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include calyx of tabebuia is always and concept of tabebuia that was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tabebuia" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tabebuia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gentry divided Tabebuia into 10 "species groups", some of them intentionally artificial. (12 words)
The calyx is usually spathaceous in Tabebuia, but never so in Handroanthus. (12 words)
This is the concept of Tabebuia that was usually followed until 2007. (12 words)
The former genus and polyphyletic group of 99 species described by Gentry in 1992 is now usually referred to as "Tabebuia sensu lato ". (23 words)
Tabebuia is distinguished from Handroanthus by wood that is not especially hard or heavy, and not abruptly divided into heartwood and sapwood. (22 words)
Gentry did not agree with the segregation of Handroanthus from Tabebuia and warned against "succumbing to further paroxysms of unwarranted splitting". (21 words)
Example sentences (17)
Tabebuia sprout Uses The wood of Tabebuia is light to medium in weight.
Confusion soon ensued over the meaning of Tabebuia and what to include within it.
Description Flower of Pink Poui ( Tabebuia rosea The description below is excerpted from Grose and Olmstead (2007).
Gentry did not agree with the segregation of Handroanthus from Tabebuia and warned against "succumbing to further paroxysms of unwarranted splitting".
Gentry divided Tabebuia into 10 "species groups", some of them intentionally artificial.
In spite of its use for lumber, Tabebuia is best known as an ornamental flowering tree.
Only two species of Tabebuia are yellow-flowered, but most species of Handroanthus are.
Some species of Tabebuia have ribbed fruit, but not as conspicuously so as the two species of Roseodendron.
Tabebuia, as currently circumscribed, consists of groups 2,6,7,8,9, and 10. Group 1 is now the genus Roseodendron.
Tabebuia is distinguished from Handroanthus by wood that is not especially hard or heavy, and not abruptly divided into heartwood and sapwood.
Tabebuia rosea (including T. pentaphylla) is an important timber tree of tropical America.
Tabebuia was first used as a generic name by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1838.
The calyx is usually spathaceous in Tabebuia, but never so in Handroanthus.
The former genus and polyphyletic group of 99 species described by Gentry in 1992 is now usually referred to as "Tabebuia sensu lato ".
The swamp species of Tabebuia have wood that is unusually light in weight.
This is the concept of Tabebuia that was usually followed until 2007.
Unlike Roseodendron, the calyx of Tabebuia is always distinctly harder and thicker than the corolla.
Common combinations with tabebuia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of tabebuia 7×
- tabebuia is 4×
- tabebuia and 2×
- tabebuia rosea 2×
- tabebuia have 2×