Wild tamarind Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    camachile; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; huamachil.
  2. noun a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods
    Lysiloma latisiliqua; Lysiloma bahamensis.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.

Webster 1913