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    WILD TAMARIND

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Lysiloma bahamensis; Lysiloma latisiliqua; wild tamarind

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

    Sense 2

    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 gumplay

    Synonyms:

    camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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