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WILD TAMARIND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods
Synonyms:
Lysiloma bahamensis; Lysiloma latisiliqua; wild tamarind
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild 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 ("wild tamarind" is a member of...):
genus Lysiloma; Lysiloma (small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods)
Sense 2
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
Synonyms:
camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("wild 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 ("wild 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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