单词 | pride-of-India |
释义 | pride-of-India (once / 1969886 pages) n WORD FAMILY pride-of-India USAGE EXAMPLESEntering the town beneath an archway of foliage, this causeway broadened into a sandy street under huge pride-of-India trees, whose branches met overhead. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, Horace Chase(2012) Rectus and I agreed, however, that we would rather have a pride-of-India tree than a charter, as far as we were concerned. Stockton, Frank Richard, A Jolly Fellowship(2010) 1n tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree Syn|Hyper China tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, azedarach, azederach, chinaberry, chinaberry tree tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2n native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers Syn|Hyper Lagerstroemia speciosa, Queen's crape myrtle angiospermous tree, flowering tree any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary |
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