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RAIN TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rain tree mean?
• RAIN TREE (noun)
The noun RAIN TREE has 1 sense:
1. large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
Familiarity information: RAIN TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Albizia saman; monkey pod; monkeypod; rain tree; saman; zaman; zamang
Hypernyms ("rain tree" is a kind of...):
albizia; albizzia (any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia)
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