Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Melia Azedarach, natural order Meliaceœ.
- noun The name in Jamaica of a leguminous timber-tree, Ormosia dasycarpa, with red globose seeds.
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- noun botany Melia azedarach, a
deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native toIndia ,Southeast Asia , and northernAustralia .
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- noun small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots
Etymologies
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Its seeds are used as beads, hence the name.
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