Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree.
Native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers.
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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.
1The box, containing those of the left was of purple Azedarach.
2The white cedar (Melia Azedarach) grows also along Zamia Creek, with casuarina, and a species of Leptospermum.
1The white cedar ( Melia Azedarach) grows also along Zamia Creek, with casuarina, and a species of Leptospermum.
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.
5Hildemara climbed the chinaberry tree, where she could keep watch.
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.
1The Persian lilac, which lifts high in air its gay flax-coloured branches.
2The Persian lilac was very full and lasted a long time.
3Now, with her elbow resting on the edge of the pot of strawberries, under the shadow of the Persian lilac, she remained in contemplation.
4Persian lilacs, syringas, labernums made thickets here and there and covered their heads with bloom.
5The Persian lilacs, weighed down with their heavy clusters of flowers, bent gracefully, like a row of courtiers.
1Rectus and I agreed, however, that we would rather have a pride-of-India tree than a charter, as far as we were concerned.
Translations for pride-of-India