chinaberry tree

Questions about chinaberry tree

What does chinaberry tree mean?

chinaberry tree means "tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree".

What is another word for chinaberry tree?

Close synonyms include chinaberry, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azederach. 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 chinaberry tree a common word?

chinaberry tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.