NOUN
- evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans
- tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
How To Use chinaberry In A Sentence
- A tree-snapping wind storm in May and a worsening drought have dealt more blows, and invasive species such as chinaberry, nandina and ligustrum are choking out native plants. Statesman - AP Sports
- The chinaberry is a warm-weather shade tree that was brought to the United States a couple of centuries ago and has flourished in the South. Childhood in a minor key
- I skirt the shade of the chinaberry, move steadily away from Jimmy's fistful of asps. South Oak Cliff
- The latter name (not to mention neem itself) has sometimes been confused with M. azedarach, a West Asian tree commonly known as Persian lilac, bakain, dharak, or chinaberry. 3 The Tree
- (Azadirachta indica) or chinaberry (Melia azedarach) blossom nectar is harmful to honeybees, since leaves and seeds are widely used to control insects. 9: Domestic animals
- Among his choices were olive, lemon, lime, apricot, peach, and chinaberry.
- While the store now seemed small to him, the trees—pecan and chinaberry and the occasional spiny-trunked palm—seemed enormous. Calling Up Ghosts on the Ten-Mile Straight
- On one side it was anchored by a huge chinaberry tree, on the other by a towering mimosa.
- Melia azedarach, called chinaberry or West Indian lilac, contained a number of toxic alkaloids. Jurassic Park
- Examples are glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and ‘red splendor’ crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumacs, American highbush cranberry, eastern and European wahoo, Virginia creeper and Chinaberry.
