melia azadirachta

Questions about melia azadirachta

What does melia azadirachta mean?

melia azadirachta means "large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia".

What is another word for melia azadirachta?

Close synonyms include neem, neem tree, nim tree, margosa, arishth. 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 melia azadirachta a common word?

melia azadirachta 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.