rain tree
noun
Origin of rain tree
1First recorded in 1875–80
Words Nearby rain tree
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How to use rain tree in a sentence
A copious production of honeydew by plant lice, scale insects, etc., may be at the bottom of some of the rain-tree stories.
Meteorology | Charles Fitzhugh Talman
British Dictionary definitions for rain tree
rain tree
noun
a leguminous tree, Samanea saman, native to Central America and widely planted in the tropics for ornament. It has red-and-yellow feathery flowers and pinnate leaves whose leaflets close at the approach of rain
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