Bauhinia

noun

1. Any of various tropical or subtropical trees, shrubs, or woody vines of the genus Bauhinia in the pea family, having two-part or deeply cleft leaves and showy, variously colored flowers.
2. A genus of plants, natural order Leguminosæ.
3. Any of flowering plants of the Bauhinia genus, some of which are known as orchid trees.
4. mountain ebony, orchid tree