manila tamarind

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   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

   Synonymscamachilehuamachilwild tamarindPithecellobium dulce

   Broadertree

   Part ofPithecellobium

Questions about manila tamarind

What does manila tamarind mean?

manila tamarind means "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".

What is another word for manila tamarind?

Close synonyms include camachile, huamachil, wild tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manila tamarind a common word?

manila tamarind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.