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 "
1 He saw Ellie May peering at him from behind the chinaberry tree.
2 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.
4 Dude snickered and stood behind a chinaberry tree so nobody could see him.
5 How small it looks with no house, no carhouse, no chinaberry trees, she thought.
1 A noble pride of India {Footnote: China tree : the melia azedaracha of botanists.
2 On reaching the yard, we rested a long time on a settee under a group of china trees .
3 The hall floor was covered to muffle the tread; not a sound reached her save the stirring of the China trees outside.
4 Outside was a small stone balcony, and beyond it a fringe of China trees and the fields, desolate and empty in the moonlight.
5 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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Translations for Sapindus saponaria