drumstick tree

English

An Indian Drumstick (cut)

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)
• Punjabi: ਸੁਹਾਂਜਣਾ (pa) m (suhāñjṇā)
• Swahili: mlonge
• Tagalog: malunggay
• Tamil: முருங்கை (ta) (muruṅkai)
• Vietnamese: chùm ngây

References

• Moringa oleifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia