Neem vs Chinaberry - What's the difference?
neem | chinaberry |
a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, , whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin
* 2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 108:
(botany) Melia azedarach , a deciduous tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native to India, southern China and Australia.
The fruit of such a tree.
As nouns the difference between neem and chinaberry
is that neem is a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, species: Azadirachta indica, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin while chinaberry is Melia azedarach, a deciduous tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native to India, southern China and Australia.neem
English
(wikipedia neem)Noun
(en noun)- He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.