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money tree

money tree noun: an imaginary tree from which money can be plucked. See money doesn't grow on trees.

Noun

money tree (plural money trees)

  1. An imaginary tree from which money can be plucked. See money doesn't grow on trees.
    • Maybe we could learn how to grow money trees.1967, Canadian Parliament, House of Commons Debates, volume 1, page 699
    • 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.2004, Leo Furey, The Long Run, page 86
  2. (name) The Malabar chestnut, Pachira aquatica.
    Synonyms:
    Guiana chestnut, provision tree, saba nut
  3. The jade plant, Crassula ovata.
    Synonyms:
    friendship tree, money plant
  4. The cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao.
  5. (Chinese) A kind of holy tree believed to bring money and good fortune.
  6. (US) A miniature tree sculpture decorated with currency, often used as a raffle prize or a gift.
    • NIAIN′s one money making project of the year, a money tree, was raffled off and won by Virginia Call of Bell and Howell.1972, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, American Association of Industrial Nurses, Occupational Health Nursing, Volume 20, page 26
    • Donations from teachers and others were converted into coinage for a money tree that was raffled for $500.2001, 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...
  7. (Australia) A cheap tree sculpture, decorated with currency, used as a raffle prize because it would be illegal to offer a cash prize.

Examples of money tree in a sentence

  • But there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake, that suddenly provides for everything that people want.2017, Question Time (television), spoken by Theresa May, via BBC:
  • Given this choice, the electorate for the Tory leadership[…]preferred the magical money tree.2022 October 14, Tom McTague, “The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation”, in The Atlantic:

Synonyms of money tree

All synonyms of money tree

Forms of money tree

pluralmoney trees

Questions about money tree

What does money tree mean?
Money tree means an imaginary tree from which money can be plucked. See money doesn't grow on trees.
How do you use money tree in a sentence?
But there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake, that suddenly provides for everything that people want.
What part of speech is money tree?
Money tree is a noun.
What is the plural of money tree?
The plural of money tree is money trees.

Words near money tree in the dictionary

  1. money talks
  2. money talks and bullshit walks
  3. money talks, bullshit walks
  4. money talks, wealth whispers
  5. money to burn
  6. money tree
  7. money trees
  8. money won is twice as sweet as money earned
  9. money's worth
  10. money-box
  11. money-boxes

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