melia azederach

Questions about melia azederach

What does melia azederach mean?

melia azederach 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 azederach?

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 azederach a common word?

melia azederach 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.