melia azedarach

Questions about melia azedarach

What does melia azedarach mean?

melia azedarach 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 melia azedarach?

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

melia azedarach 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.