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rain-tree

rain-tree is the alternative form of rain tree.

Meaning of rain tree

Noun

rain tree (plural rain trees)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    acacia, algarrobo, cow bean tree, cow tamarind, genisaro, giant thibet, monkey pod, saman tree, guango
  2. Philenoptera violacea (apple-leaf), native to Africa.
    Synonyms:
    Kalahari apple-leaf, apple-leaf
  3. Brunfelsia spp.
  4. Golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)

Forms of rain-tree

pluralrain-trees

Questions about rain-tree

What is rain-tree the alternative form of?
Rain-tree is the alternative form of rain tree.

Words near rain-tree in the dictionary

  1. rain-coat
  2. rain-coats
  3. rain-free
  4. rain-slickened
  5. rain-soaked
  6. rain-tree
  7. rain-trees
  8. rain-wrapped
  9. Raina
  10. Rainas
  11. rainband

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rain-tree (page history and authors); rain tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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