bead tree

bead tree

English

Indian grey hornbill Ocyceros birostris eating bead-tree fruit in Uttarakhand, India.

Alternative forms

• bead-tree

Etymology

Its seeds are used as beads.

Noun

bead tree (plural bead trees)

1. Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

Synonyms

• azedarach, chinaberry, white cedar, Persian lilac, pride of China, pride of India, syringa berry

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

Melia azedarach

Arabic: أَزَادَرْخَت‎ (ar) (ʾazādarḵat) Armenian: Middle Armenian: ազատրախտ (azatraxt), ջանտարի (ǰantari) Assamese: ঘোঁৰা নিম (ghü̃ra nim) Basque: paradisuko melia Bengali: please add this translation if you can Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: mèlia, arbre sant, parenostre (ca), metzina (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 楝樹／楝树 (zh) (liànshù) Danish: paternostertræ Dutch: Indische sering Finnish: meelia (fi) French: margousier (fr) m, lilas de Perse (fr) m, azédarach (fr) m German: Zedrachbaum (de) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 栴檀 (ja) (センダン, sendan) Khmer: មេត្រី (km) (meetrəy) Korean: 멀구슬나무 (meolguseullamu) Lao: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: amargoseira (pt) Spanish: cinamomo, agriaz (es), piocha (es), canelo (es), paraíso sombrilla Swedish: zedrak Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: xoan

See also

• lilac
• syringa
• sandalwood

References

• bead tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia