Chinese scholartree
- noun
:
árbol de los eruditos chino
- The Chinese scholartree blooms in midsummer, filling the garden with a sweet fragrance.
Examples
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They planted a row of Chinese scholartrees along the avenue for their beautiful white flowers.
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The Chinese scholartree is valued in landscape design for its graceful form and dense foliage.
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The Chinese scholartree blooms beautifully in the spring.
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Many Chinese scholartrees grow in the gardens of Kyoto.
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The Chinese scholartree blooms in midsummer, filling the garden with a sweet fragrance.
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Many Chinese scholartrees grow in the gardens of Kyoto, attracting visitors with their stunning flowers.
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The Chinese scholartree is valued in landscape design for its graceful form and dense foliage.
Synonyms
A tree that loses its leaves and has dark green leaf groups and creamy-white fragrant flowers
A tree from China and Japan with dark green leaves and clusters of fragrant creamy-white flowers
A tree with dark green divided leaves and clusters of creamy-white fragrant flowers
A tree from China and Japan with a rounded top, dark green leaves, and many fragrant creamy-white flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Chinese + scholartree
The modifier 'Chinese' transparently signals origin, but the core noun 'scholartree' is not a productive, clearly compositional word (dictionary entry missing) and its specific botanical meaning cannot be derived from 'scholar' + 'tree'. Because part of the phrase is predictable (origin) but the species identity and properties are lexicalized and not inferable from the constituents, the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Chinese scholartree may come from a simple picture: old Chinese scholars sat under this tree to read and think, enjoying its shade and sweet flowers. So Chinese scholartree reminds people of 'study' and quiet places.
