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MANILA TAMARIND

• MANILA TAMARIND (noun)
The noun MANILA TAMARIND has 1 sense:

1. common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum

Familiarity information: MANILA TAMARIND used as a noun is very rare.

• MANILA TAMARIND (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind

Hypernyms ("manila tamarind" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("manila tamarind" is a member of...):

genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium (thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia)

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