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rain tree

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noun
  1. monkeypod.
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Origin of rain tree

First recorded in 1875–80
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  • A copious production of honeydew by plant lice, scale insects, etc., may be at the bottom of some of the rain-tree stories.

    Meteorology

    Charles Fitzhugh Talman

British Dictionary definitions for rain tree

rain tree

noun
  1. a leguminous tree, Samanea saman, native to Central America and widely planted in the tropics for ornament. It has red-and-yellow feathery flowers and pinnate leaves whose leaflets close at the approach of rain
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