Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ornamental East Indian tree, Melia Azedarach, cultivated in southern Europe and America, and also known as bead-tree, pride of India, etc. See
Melia . - noun A drug, consisting of the bark of the root of the azedarach. It is an emetic and a cathartic, and is used as a vermifuge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) a handsome tree (
Melia azedarach ) of the mahogany family, native to Northern India and China, having long clusters of fragrant purple blossoms and small ornamental but inedible yellow fruits. It has been naturalized as a shade tree and is common in the southern United States; -- called also,chinaberry ,China tree ,Pride of India ,Pride of China , andBead tree . - noun (Med.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
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The box, containing those of the left was of purple Azedarach.
Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Various 1880
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Azedarach_); Texas umbrella-tree (var. _umbraculiformis_ of the preceding); mulberries; oxydendrum; paulownia; oriental plane-tree; native oaks of the regions; _Robinia Pseudacacia; _ weeping willow;
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Azedarach) grows also along Zamia Creek, with casuarina, and a species of
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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