noun
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: ↑camachile, ↑huamachil, ↑wild tamarind, ↑Pithecellobium dulce
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pithecellobium, ↑genus Pithecellobium, ↑Pithecolobium, ↑genus Pithecolobium
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nounUsage: usually capitalized M
: the edible pods of camachile
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huamuchil.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.