Meaning of pagoda tree | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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.”

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