ghetto palm

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.