Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree.
Evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans.
1A noble pride of India {Footnote: China tree: the melia azedaracha of botanists.
2On reaching the yard, we rested a long time on a settee under a group of china trees.
3The hall floor was covered to muffle the tread; not a sound reached her save the stirring of the China trees outside.
4Outside was a small stone balcony, and beyond it a fringe of China trees and the fields, desolate and empty in the moonlight.
5They feed on the berries of the dogwood, china tree and mistletoe, and are the jolliest lot of birds it is possible to imagine.
Translations for China tree