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) (ʔazādarḵat)
• Armenian:

  Middle Armenian: ազատրախտ (azatraxt), ջանտարի (ǰantari)

• Assamese: ঘোঁৰা নিম (ghü̃ra nim)
• Basque: paradisuko melia
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• 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)
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• Italian: albero dei rosari m
• Japanese: 栴檀 (ja) (センダン, sendan)
• Khmer: មេត្រី (km) (meetrəy)
• Korean: 멀구슬나무 (meolguseullamu)
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• Ottoman Turkish: تسبیح آغاجی (tesbih ağacı)
• Portuguese: amargoseira (pt)
• Spanish: cinamomo, agriaz (es), piocha (es), canelo (es), paraíso sombrilla
• Swedish: zedrak
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tespih ağacı (tr)
• Vietnamese: xoan

See also

• lilac
• syringa
• sandalwood

References

• bead tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia