noun
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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noun : any of several West Indian trees (as Lysiloma bahamensis and species of Pithecolobium) that resemble the tamarind
Useful english dictionary. 2012.