Contextualizebeta

pagoda tree

noun

Etymology

(source of wealth): See pagoda (“a kind of gold coin”).

Definitions

  1. Styphnolobium japonicum, a tree in the pea family Fabaceae.

  2. The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India.

    • India has been transferred from the regions of romance to the realms of fact […] the mines of Golconda no longer pay the cost of working, and the pagoda-tree has been stripped of all its golden fruit.
    • It might be mistaken […] for the work of some modern architect, built for the Nabob of a couple of generations back, who had enriched himself when the pagoda-tree was worth the shaking.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pagoda tree. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA