Evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans.
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Examples for "chinaberry"
Examples for "chinaberry"
1He saw Ellie May peering at him from behind the chinaberry tree.
2The grandmother took her accustomed position behind a chinaberry tree, looking and listening.
3Ellie May stood behind a chinaberry tree, looking around the trunk at Lov.
4Dude snickered and stood behind a chinaberry tree so nobody could see him.
5How small it looks with no house, no carhouse, no chinaberry trees, she thought.
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 Sapindus saponaria