wild tamarind
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 • Syn: manila tamarind, camachile, huamachil, Pithecellobium dulce • Hypernyms: tree • Member Holonyms: Pithecellobium, genus Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium, genus Pithecolobium 2. a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods • Syn: Lysiloma latisiliqua, Lysiloma bahamensis • Hypernyms: tree • Member Holonyms: Lysiloma, genus Lysiloma
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