money tree
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The Malabar chestnut, Pachira aquatica.
noun
The jade plant, Crassula ovata.
noun
The cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao.
Example Sentences
- "Maybe we could learn how to grow money trees."
- "Money does not grow on trees. There is no money tree at Mount Kildare. If we had a money tree, boys, there would be no need of the bakery, no need of the raffle."
- "But there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake, that suddenly provides for everything that people want."
- "Her rival […]argued for fiscal responsibility and warned that such a reckless policy would lead to a run on the pound and a calamitous series of mortgage-rate rises. Given this choice, the electorate for the Tory leadership[…]preferred the magical money tree."
- "1972, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, American Association of Industrial Nurses, Occupational Health Nursing, Volume 20, page 26, NIAIN′s one money making project of the year, a money tree, was raffled off and won by Virginia Call of Bell and Howell."
- "2001, Daniel J. Brown, Chapter 11: School Voluntarism, Social Capital, and Civil Society, Heinz-Dieter Meyer, William Lowe Boyd (editors), Education: Between States, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, page 173, Donations from teachers and others were converted into coinage for a money tree that was raffled for $500."
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage