chinaberry
Americannoun
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chinaberries
plural
noun
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Also called: China tree, azedarach. a spreading Asian meliaceous tree, Melia azedarach, widely grown in the US for its ornamental white or purple flowers and beadlike yellow fruits
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another name for soapberry
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the fruit of any of these trees
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A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge of the field.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
“It was nothing but scrub trees, chinaberry and hackberry.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2019
The thermometer on the back porch stood at ninety-two, the carhouse shimmered faintly in the distance, and the giant chinaberry trees were deadly still.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015
I used to climb to the top of one of the huge chinaberry trees, which guarded our front gate, and look out over the world.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2010
I didn’t know what Bailey received, but after I opened my boxes I went out to the backyard behind the chinaberry tree.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Mrs. Macy smiled at the loblollies and chinaberries curving around the perimeter of the Macys’ two acres.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
One of the old ladies from the residences yet to be converted to a rooming house was outside in her pink housecoat, sweeping chinaberries off her sidewalk.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
He’d tended quietly to his apples and rhododendrons, his chinaberries and mulberry hedges, his rows of vegetables and flowers.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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