A tall, fast-growing Chinese tree, widely cultivated as an ornamental and shade tree.
臭椿（樗）
Ailanthus altissima, family Simaroubaceae
Example sentencesExamples
The tree of heaven opposite the church of Saints Peter and Paul was still entombed deep inside its branches but the faintest yellow-green fuzz had begun to blur the outline of willows on the banks of the River Vistula.
This is a tree of heaven, aolanthus artissima, and this one's from China.
Two hundred years ago, a Philadelphia gardener imported the Chinese tree of heaven, and Chinese immigrants later introduced it on the West Coast.
Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
The images of the ‘circus-poster horses curveted/in trees of heaven,’ and the elders who ‘would sit on broken steps,’ locate this poem on the front or street-side of the houses.
Definition of tree of heaven in US English:
tree of heaven
nounˌtrē əv ˈhevən
A fast-growing Chinese ailanthus that is widely cultivated as an ornamental.
臭椿（樗）
Ailanthus altissima, family Simaroubaceae
Example sentencesExamples
The images of the ‘circus-poster horses curveted/in trees of heaven,’ and the elders who ‘would sit on broken steps,’ locate this poem on the front or street-side of the houses.
This is a tree of heaven, aolanthus artissima, and this one's from China.
The tree of heaven opposite the church of Saints Peter and Paul was still entombed deep inside its branches but the faintest yellow-green fuzz had begun to blur the outline of willows on the banks of the River Vistula.
Two hundred years ago, a Philadelphia gardener imported the Chinese tree of heaven, and Chinese immigrants later introduced it on the West Coast.
Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.