pagoda tree

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Styphnolobium japonicum, a tree in the pea family Fabaceae.
  2. The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India. India,colloquial,dated,idiomatic
    — 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.

词形变化

pagoda trees plural

词源

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