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pagoda trees

pagoda trees is the plural of pagoda tree.

Meaning of pagoda tree

Noun

pagoda tree (plural pagoda trees)

  1. Styphnolobium japonicum, a tree in the pea family Fabaceae.
  2. (India, colloquial, dated, idiomatic) The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India.
    • India has been transferred from the regions of romance to the realms of fact […] the mines of Golconda no longer pay the cost of working, and the pagoda-tree has been stripped of all its golden fruit.1877, Blackwood's Magazine, page 575

Questions about pagoda trees

What is pagoda trees the plural of?
Pagoda trees is the plural of pagoda tree.

Words near pagoda trees in the dictionary

  1. pagoda flower
  2. pagoda flowers
  3. pagoda sleeve
  4. pagoda sleeves
  5. pagoda tree
  6. pagoda trees
  7. pagoda-like
  8. pagodaed
  9. pagodah
  10. pagodahs
  11. pagodal

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