Champac

Quick meaning: Champac is a noun meaning A type of Asian tree with fragrant blossoms, Magnolia champaca.

Meaning

A type of Asian tree with fragrant blossoms, Magnolia champaca.

Example Sentences

From the wood of the champac the images of Buddha are carved for the temples.

There were magnolias, shaddocks, hibiscus, the almost too fragrant yellow-flowered champac, sacred to Hindoo mythology; nutmeg and cinnamon trees, tea and coffee, and every other conceivable plant and tree, growing in the wildest luxuriance.

The bamboo boughs that sway and swing / 'Neath bulbuls as the south wind blows, / The mango-tope, a close dark ring, / Home of the rooks and clamorous crows, / The champac, bok, and South-sea pine, / The nagessur with pendant flowers / Like ear-rings--and the forest vine / That clinging over all, embowers […]

And now, as to that blossomy peach-scent--even while some floes were yet around me--I was just like some fantastic mariner, who, having set out to search for Eden and the Blessed Islands, finds them, and balmy gales from their gardens come out, while he is yet afar, to meet him with their perfumes of almond and champac, cornel and jasmin and lotus.

Word Forms

• champacs
• champak
• champaka

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include champak, champaka, champaca, chimonanthus, magnolia, chameli.

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