singing treen. a West Indian tree, the pods of which make a singing sound when stirred by the wind.
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1885 A. BrasseyIn Trades 340 The flamboyant..is very abundant here [i.e. in the Bahamas]; as is also the ‘singing’ tree, which we first saw in Jamaica.