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chinaberry tree

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Noun1.chinaberry tree - tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
azedarach, azederach, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, China tree, chinaberry
genus Melia, Melia - type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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If chinaberry trees couldn't survive at Monticello, Jefferson planted them anyway.
Henry Mitchell on Gardening by Segall, Vivian / Commonweal
As in Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree (Lee), William Miller depicts a set of culminating events that reveal the personal strength that carries a young person forward to notable achievement as an adult.
Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery by Bush, Margaret A. / The Horn Book Magazine
In Chinaberry Tree and especially in There is Confusion she answered Stribling, affirming the similarity, not a total identity, between African Americans and Caucasians, and their wide potential, a conservative ideal of women's function in society, and a moderate but firm attack on the havoc wrought on both sides of the fence by racial discrimination.
Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America by Walden, Daniel / African American Review
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