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Definition of Azedarach
1. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Melia, Melia
Generic synonyms: Tree
Definition of Azedarach
1. n. A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.
Definition of Azedarach
1. Noun. An Asiatic tree (''Melia azedarach''), common in the southern United States ¹
2. Noun. The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Azedarach
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Medical Definition of Azedarach
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Literary usage of Azedarach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to therapeutics and materia medica by Robert Farquharson (1877)
"The bark of the root of Melia azedarach, US Secondary. The bead-tree, or Pride
of China, is largely used in the Southern States as an anthelmintic, ..."
2. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"This is the BARK of the ROOT of Melia azedarach, or Pride of China (Nat. Ord.
Meliaceae), an Asiatic tree, cultivated extensively as an ornamental tree in ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1855)
"Pride of India tree, (Melia, azedarach.) The latter, when in flower, is an object
of considerable merit. It grows to about thirty or forty feet high, ..."
4. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1901)
"Melia azedarach, L. NOM. VULG.—Paraíso (Paradise), Sp.-Fil.; Pride of India,
China Tree, Eng. USES.—The root was official in the USP, 1880, ..."
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