What is "chinaberry tree"

Usage examples of "chinaberry tree".

Edward liked looking at the homes they passed, homes where small hopes had been effectively met, thinking of himself both as an integral part of that world, of having a home like that himself where the warm yellow light from the interior laced the edges of the leaves of the chinaberry tree that stood just outside the glass, and somehow, too, as a glider in that world, a planetary traveler with no exceptional powers or capacities, and every good intention.

Pride-of-India, Chinaberry tree, China tree (Melia azedarach}: small tree.

He knew that there was no money in the flour sack, because he had seen them bury it under the chinaberry tree.

Maybe she had known it, ever since the day in Central Park when she had taken a careless shot at a chinaberry tree with a cheaplooking .

Red Sammy was lying on the bare ground outside The Tower with his head under a truck while a gray monkey about a foot high, chained to a small chinaberry tree, chattered nearby.

A noisy cloud of sparrows swept across the lot and into a chinaberry tree beside the house, and in the high soft vague blue swallows swooped and whirled in erratic indecision, their cries like strings plucked at random.

Sitting there, he remembered the old black man he had talked with one afternoon, deep in Alabama, sitting on the ramshackle porch of the neat, ramshackle house, with the shade of a chinaberry tree shielding them from the heat of the late-afternoon sun.

After World War II, Eldred had laid out some of his hard-earned cash to buy Kenny a shaggy, sway-backed pony, which the Stouts had kept tethered to a chinaberry tree in the backyard.

In the back yard was a chicken coop and wired runs, a pig pen, and an ancient barn of unpainted cypress leaning wearily against a scabrous chinaberry tree.