drumstick tree

English

Etymology

drumstick + tree. The immature pods are long and cylindrical like drumsticks

Noun

drumstick tree (plural drumstick trees)

1. An economically useful tree, Moringa oleifera, probably native to India, but grown throughout the tropics.

Synonyms

• ben
• horseradish tree
• moringa

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

Moringa oleifera

Burmese: ဒန့်သလွန် (my) (dan.sa.lwan) Chinese: 辣木 Finnish: ceyloninmoringa Hindi: सहजन (hi) m (sahjan) Indonesian: kelor (id) Korean: 모링가 (moringga) Malayalam: മുരിങ്ങ (ml) (muriṅṅa) Muyang: genderew Polish: moringa olejodajna f, drzewo chrzanowe n Punjabi: ਸੁਹਾਂਜਣਾ (pa) m (suhāñjṇā) Swahili: mlonge (sw) Tagalog: malunggay Tamil: முருங்கை (ta) (muruṅkai) Telugu: మునగచెట్టు (te) (munagaceṭṭu) Vietnamese: chùm ngây

References

• Moringa oleifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia