noun. A deciduous Asian tree (Melia azedarach), widely cultivated and naturalized in the southern United States, having bipinnately compound leaves, lavender flowers, and poisonous yellow fruit.

noun. an evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans.

noun. a tree of N India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern US as a shade tree.

noun. Melia azedarach, a deciduous tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native to India, southern China and Australia.

noun. The fruit of such a tree.

noun. tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

noun. evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans

"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."

soapberry  soapberry tree  tree  

Ailanthus  beerbarrel  box elder  buttonwood  ever-blooming  

Azedarach  China tree  Persian lilac  azedarach  azederach