ghetto palm

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English

Noun

ghetto palm (plural ghetto palms)

  1. Synonym of tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
    • 2006, Mark Chalkley, Hampden-Woodberry:
      Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.