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    TAMARINDO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneysplay

    Synonyms:

    tamarind; tamarindo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("tamarindo" is a kind of...):

    edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

    Holonyms ("tamarindo" is a part of...):

    tamarind; tamarind tree; tamarindo; Tamarindus indica (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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    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 pulpplay

    Synonyms:

    tamarind; tamarind tree; tamarindo; Tamarindus indica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("tamarindo" is a kind of...):

    bean tree (any of several trees having seedpods as fruits)

    Meronyms (parts of "tamarindo"):

    tamarind; tamarindo (large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys)

    Holonyms ("tamarindo" is a member of...):

    genus Tamarindus; Tamarindus (widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africa)

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