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Definition of Chinaberries
1. chinaberry [n] - See also: chinaberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinaberries
Literary usage of Chinaberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1908)
"... the overwintered chinaberries also received attention, and the finding of
larvae commonly at work in them denoted a general infestation of the fruit. ..."
2. Graded Classics by Margaret Winifred Haliburton, Frank Turner Norvell (1903)
"And there was the old popgun too, still smelling of chinaberries. If Aaron only
knew it, that popgun had been a wonderful gun. Yes, siree! the bird that ..."
3. Tariff Information, 1921 by United States Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (1921)
"No, sir; we do not import any chinaberries, because we grow them in ... Do we
import any chinaberries? Mr. CARVER. No, sir; they are not used to any great ..."
4. The Merrill Readers by Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady (1916)
"At a pinch, he will swallow a half-dozen chinaberries, the fruit on which the
robins get drunk in March while on their way to join the bobolinks on their ..."
5. Short Stories from Life: The 81 Prize Stories in "Life's" Shortest Story Contest by Thomas L. Masson, John Kendrick Bangs, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Lincoln Steffens, Doubleday, Page & Company, Country Life Press (1916)
"Nowadays there were no carrots, no rest under spreading cottonwoods and chinaberries.
With Estevan there never had been anything to associate but work and ..."
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