sad tree

American  

noun

1. night jasmine.

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Etymology

Origin of sad tree

1865–70; translation of New Latin arbor tristis

Example Sentences

He sees shiny aluminum Christmas trees for sale everywhere, but instead he buys a scrawny, sad tree and decorates it with a single ornament.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2015

The sad tree under which he sat had suffered from the lack of rains.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

In shade of Death's sad tree Stood dolefull shee.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

"Willows: a sad tree, whereof such who have lost their love make their mourning garlands."

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

All stringlessly hung in the willow's sad tree, As dead as her dead-leaf, those mute harps must be: Our hands may be fettered—our tears still are free For our God—and our Glory—and Sion, Oh Thee!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley