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Quis·qual·is | \ kwə̇ˈskwälə̇s \
Definition of Quisqualis
: a small genus of tropical Asiatic, Indo-Malayan, and African woody vines (family Combretaceae) having red or orange spicate flowers with a superior calyx whose limb is deciduous from the long tube and a fruit possessed of five wings — see rangoon creeper
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