pride-of-india

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An ornamental tree, Melia Azedarach.

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• noun native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
• noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree