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Meanings of pride-of-India in English
Portuguese
amargoseira Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree.
Portuguese
resedá gigante Native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers.
Synonyms
Examples for "chinaberry"
Examples for "chinaberry"
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He saw Ellie May peering at him from behind the chinaberry tree.
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The grandmother took her accustomed position behind a chinaberry tree, looking and listening.
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Ellie May stood behind a chinaberry tree, looking around the trunk at Lov.
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Dude snickered and stood behind a chinaberry tree so nobody could see him.
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How small it looks with no house, no carhouse, no chinaberry trees, she thought.
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The box, containing those of the left was of purple Azedarach.
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The white cedar (Melia Azedarach) grows also along Zamia Creek, with casuarina, and a species of Leptospermum.
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The white cedar ( Melia Azedarach) grows also along Zamia Creek, with casuarina, and a species of Leptospermum.
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He saw Ellie May peering at him from behind the chinaberry tree.
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The grandmother took her accustomed position behind a chinaberry tree, looking and listening.
3
Ellie May stood behind a chinaberry tree, looking around the trunk at Lov.
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Dude snickered and stood behind a chinaberry tree so nobody could see him.
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Hildemara climbed the chinaberry tree, where she could keep watch.
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A noble pride of India {Footnote: China tree: the melia azedaracha of botanists.
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On reaching the yard, we rested a long time on a settee under a group of china trees.
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The hall floor was covered to muffle the tread; not a sound reached her save the stirring of the China trees outside.
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Outside was a small stone balcony, and beyond it a fringe of China trees and the fields, desolate and empty in the moonlight.
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They feed on the berries of the dogwood, china tree and mistletoe, and are the jolliest lot of birds it is possible to imagine.
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The Persian lilac, which lifts high in air its gay flax-coloured branches.
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The Persian lilac was very full and lasted a long time.
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Now, with her elbow resting on the edge of the pot of strawberries, under the shadow of the Persian lilac, she remained in contemplation.
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Persian lilacs, syringas, labernums made thickets here and there and covered their heads with bloom.
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The Persian lilacs, weighed down with their heavy clusters of flowers, bent gracefully, like a row of courtiers.
Usage of pride-of-India in English
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Rectus and I agreed, however, that we would rather have a pride-of-India tree than a charter, as far as we were concerned.