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Definition of Silk tree
1. Noun. Attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silk Tree
Literary usage of Silk tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Village Life in Egypt: With Sketches of the Säid by Bayle St. John (1853)
"... Ombos — View of the Ruins by Might — Lights on the Plain —The Silk-tree — Its
Medicinal Value — Amazons of Gebel ..."
2. Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Greenouse Plants / by by Loundon (Jane) (1848)
"... or silk tree, one of the most lovely of the whole genus. The characteristics
of this plant, and, ..."
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