Tamarind definitions

tăm'ə-rĭnd'
A tropical evergreen tree (Tamarindus indica) of the pea family, native to Africa and and widely cultivated as an ornamental and for its pods, which contain small seeds embedded in a sticky edible pulp.
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The fruit of this tree.
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Syrup prepared from the pulp of this fruit.
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A tropical leguminous tree (Tamarindus indica) of the caesalpinia family, with yellow flowers and brown pods with an acid pulp.
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Its fruit, used in foods, beverages, etc.
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A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.
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The fruit of this tree; the pulp is used as spice in Asian cooking and in Worcestershire sauce.
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Origin of tamarind

Middle English from Old French tamarinde from Arabic tamr hindī tamr dates tmr in Semitic roots hindī of India (from Hind India) (from Persian Hindi)

Sentence Examples

  • The tamarind and banyan are also noteworthy.

  • These are generally unproductive, and covered with stunted wood; but the lower country is fertile, and] finely clothed with the baobab, the tamarind and various valuable fruit-trees.

  • The tamarind is everywhere.

  • As a whole, the arable tract is a treeless region, except around the villages, which are encircled by fine mango, pipal, banyan and tamarind trees, and intersected with green shady lanes of bamboo.

  • The forest vegetation, largely confined to the "Isle of Isles" and the southern uplands, includes the Adansonia (baobab), which in the Fazogli district attains gigantic proportions, the tamarind, of which bread is made, the deleb palm, several valuable gum trees (whence the term Sennari often applied in Egypt to gumarabic), some dyewoods, ebony, ironwood and many varieties of acacia.

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