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Definition of Champak
1. Noun. ''Michelia champaca'', a large evergreen tree of Indomalaya, with strongly fragrant yellow or white flowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Champak
1. an East Indian tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Champak
Literary usage of Champak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions by Richard Folkard (1884)
"The blue champak-flower is of the greatest rarity, and is regarded as being ...
The Hindus apply to the champak-flowers the most flattering appellations, ..."
2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... me as more lovely than And tbi: champak'a odours fail, the sense is certainly
improved in the lees musical, though still exquisitely musical, line; and, ..."
3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"... (I want} to throw (it) among the maidens," Sem. Kedah. 106. THROW, то (Mai.
champak) : ya- aloi, Pang. U. Aring; loi ; ma-loi, eg yeh ma-loi ..."
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