silk tree
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of silk tree
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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A floss silk tree towers over the Yamaguchi Bonzai Nursery.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024
A floss silk tree towers over the Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursery.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024
McDonough is partial to the floss silk tree, which will soon be showing off with blooms like tiny orchids above a spiky trunk that looks positively Jurassic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
The biggest pink floss silk tree around — maybe 90 feet tall — is at the Bel-Air Hotel, planted there by Alphonzo Bell, the developer of Bel-Air, philanthropist, and one heck of a tennis player.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
The Dahomans worshiped snakes, a silk tree, a poison tree and a kind of ocean god whom they called Hu.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington
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