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ghetto palm

noun

Etymology

From its tendency to grow wild in weeded-over urban areas of the United States.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

    • Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.

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