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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 to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

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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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