sad tree

American  

noun

1. night jasmine.

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Etymology

Origin of sad tree

1865–70; translation of New Latin arbor tristis

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Example Sentences

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sad tree

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

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

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

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

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

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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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