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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 chutneys
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 pulp
Synonyms:
tamarind; tamarind tree; tamarindo; Tamarindus indica
Classified under:
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)