china tree

Questions about china tree

What does china tree mean?

china tree means "evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for china tree?

Close synonyms include false dogwood, jaboncillo, chinaberry, Sapindus saponaria, chinaberry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is china tree a common word?

china tree is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.