wild tamarind

Questions about wild tamarind

What does wild tamarind mean?

wild 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild tamarind?

Close synonyms include manila tamarind, camachile, huamachil, Pithecellobium dulce, Lysiloma latisiliqua. 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 wild tamarind a common word?

wild tamarind is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.