chinaberry

IPA: tʃˈaɪnʌbɛri

(US) The bead tree or azedarach, Melia azedarach, a deciduous tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native to India, southern China and Australia, or its fruit.
(US) The soapberry (genus Sapindus, especially Sapindus saponaria), native to the Americas.
(US) Actaea rubra, a poisonous herbaceous flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to North America.

Examples of "chinaberry" in Sentences

I skirt the shade of the chinaberry, move steadily away from Jimmy's fistful of asps.
Melia azedarach, called chinaberry or West Indian lilac, contained a number of toxic alkaloids.
While the store now seemed small to him, the trees—pecan and chinaberry and the occasional spiny-trunked palm—seemed enormous.
A car went by, then a truck, the illumination of their headlights falling outside the pool of shadow under the chinaberry tree.
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.
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.
It is green all year long, but in the summertime it throws off a nasty, staining black fruit about the size of a chinaberry that keeps our gardener busy with the chlorine and brush.
In Midland, where the sky arced over us in one enormous dome of blistering blue and where people doggedly imported acres of elm seedlings and chinaberry trees to plant the green ribbons of shade that lined their streets at the edge of the desert, we were quite literally an ocean and almost a continent removed.