noun
1. 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:
↑chinaberry, ↑chinaberry tree, ↑China tree, ↑pride-of-India, ↑azederach, ↑azedarach, ↑Melia azederach, ↑Melia azedarach
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Melia, ↑genus Melia
2. small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers
• Syn: ↑Syringa persica
• Hypernyms: ↑lilac
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noun1. usually capitalized P
a. : chinaberry 2
b. : a showy Asiatic shrub (Syringa persica) cultivated for its terminal panicles of fragrant lilac-colored flowers
2. often capitalized P : a dark purplish pink that is redder than clover pink and bluer and stronger than rhodonite pink
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an Asian lilac, Syringa persica, having pale reddish-purple flowers.
[1630-40]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.