Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Jacaranda \Jac`a*ran"da\, n. [Braz.; cf. Sp. & Pg. jacaranda.]
   (Bot.)
   (a) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees,
       which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger
       wood, and violet wood.
   (b) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy
       trumpet-shaped flowers.

Source : WordNet®

jacaranda
     n : an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard
         dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: {Brazilian
         rosewood}, {caviuna wood}, {Dalbergia nigra}]