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Meaning of pagoda tree | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Styphnolobium japonicum, a tree in the pea family Fabaceae.
  2. The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India.
    India, archaic, colloquial

Equivalents

Galego sófora
日本語 槐 槐樹
한국어 櫷

Examples

“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.”
“It might be mistaken […] for the work of some modern architect, built for the Nabob of a couple of generations back, who had enriched himself when the pagoda-tree was worth the shaking.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

pagodah pagodane Pagodas pagode pagodite Pagolingin Bata

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