CHINABERRY TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chinaberry tree mean? 

• CHINABERRY TREE (noun)
  The noun CHINABERRY TREE has 1 sense:

1. tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

  Familiarity information: CHINABERRY TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINABERRY TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

azedarach; azederach; China tree; chinaberry; chinaberry tree; Melia azedarach; Melia azederach; Persian lilac; pride-of-India

Hypernyms ("chinaberry tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("chinaberry tree" is a member of...):

genus Melia; Melia (type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash)