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chinaberry
[ chahy-nuh-ber-ee ]
noun
- a tree, Melia azedarach, of the mahogany family, native to Asia but widely planted elsewhere for its ornamental yellow fruits and long clusters of fragrant purplish flowers.
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Example Sentences
Oleander, chinaberry trees, tobacco plants, and toadstools are all poisonous to these slow fellows.
Across the street, in a chinaberry tree, a gang of sparrows are making a racket.
In that country, in fact, I have never found a nest of this bird except in the dead, slanting limb of a chinaberry tree.
In the figure the tree above the medicine lodge represents the chinaberry tree with its leaves and berries.
In fact, one of the species is locally known as wild China and Chinaberry.
The last of the county returns was wired from distant Chinaberry Junction: Judson led by fifty-two votes!
But when she stopped beneath a big chinaberry-tree, to further scan the roll of money, her wonder was redoubled.
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