tamarindus indica

Questions about tamarindus indica

What does tamarindus indica mean?

tamarindus indica means "long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp".

What is another word for tamarindus indica?

Close synonyms include tamarind, tamarind tree, tamarindo. 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 tamarindus indica a common word?

tamarindus indica 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.