WILD TAMARIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild tamarind mean? 

• WILD TAMARIND (noun)
  The noun WILD TAMARIND has 2 senses:

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

2. a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods

  Familiarity information: WILD TAMARIND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD TAMARIND (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lysiloma bahamensis; Lysiloma latisiliqua; wild tamarind

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)