wild tamarind

n 1: 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 [syn: {manila tamarind}, {camachile},

{huamachil}, {Pithecellobium dulce}]

2: a tamarindlike tree of the West Indies and Florida and

Mexico having long flat pods [syn: {Lysiloma latisiliqua},

{Lysiloma bahamensis}]