wild tamarind

Noun

• a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Lysiloma latisiliqua , Lysiloma bahamensis , manila tamarind , camachile , huamachil , Pithecellobium dulce