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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rain tree

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables
rain tree
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tropical American tree (Albizia saman) having bipinnate leaves, globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens, and sweet-pulp pods eaten by cattle, also used as an ornamental.

noun

Philenoptera violacea (apple-leaf), native to Africa.

noun

Brunfelsia spp.

noun

Golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)

Etymology

So called from the belief that it exudes water from its leaflets.

Inflected Forms

rain trees (plural) rain-tree (alternative) raintree (alternative)

Synonyms

yesterday-today-tomorrow lady of the night acacia algarrobo cow bean tree cow tamarind genisaro giant thibet monkey pod saman tree guango Kalahari apple-leaf

Questions

What does rain tree mean?
A tropical American tree (Albizia saman) having bipinnate leaves, globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens, and sweet-pulp pods eaten by cattle, also used as an ornamental.
Where does rain tree come from?
So called from the belief that it exudes water from its leaflets.

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