Crossword clues for tamarind
tamarind
- Large evergreen tropical tree - darn it, Ma!
- Tropical tree little seen round harbour area? Not entirely
- Tropical monkey died in tree
- Tropical fruit
- Its extract is used in Worcestershire sauce
- Large tropical seedpod with tangy pulp — mad train (anag)
- Large evergreen tropical tree — darn it, Ma! (anag)
- Indian tree with long brown seed pods
- Sharif-Andrews movie "The _____ Seed"
- Its fruit pulp is an ingredient in Worcestershire sauce
- Ingredient in Worcestershire sauce
- Large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys
- 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
- Monkey died in tree
- Soldier briefly sheltering in shade of tree
- Large tropical seedpod with tangy pulp - mad train
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tamarind \Tam"a*rind\, n. [It. tamarindo, or Sp. tamarindo, or Pg. tamarindo, tamarinho, from Ar. tamarhind[=i], literally, Indian date; tamar a dried date + Hind India: cf. F. tamarin. Cf. Hindu.] (Bot.)
A leguminous tree ( Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
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One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink. Tamarind fish, a preparation of a variety of East Indian fish with the acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. Velvet tamarind.
A West African leguminous tree ( Codarium acutifolium).
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One of the small black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone.
Wild tamarind (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "fruit of the tamarind tree, used medicinally," ultimately from Arabic tamr hindi, literally "date of India," from hind "India." First element cognate with Hebrew tamar "palm tree, date palm." Of the tree itself, from 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tropical tree, (taxlink Tamarindus indica species noshow=1). 2 The fruit of this tree; the pulp is used as spice in Asian cooking and in Worcestershire sauce. 3 Other similar species: 4 # (taxlink Diploglottis australis species noshow=1), (vern: native tamarind), a rainforest tree of Eastern Australia. 5 # ''Garcinia gummi-gutta'', (vern: Malabar tamarind), native to Indonesia. 6 # (vern Velvet tamarind pedia=1) (species of (taxlink Dialium genus noshow=1 nomul=1)). 7 A dark brown colour, like that of a tamarind.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica]
large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys [syn: tamarindo]
Wikipedia
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae indigenous to tropical Africa. The genus Tamarindus is a monotypic taxon, having only a single species.
The tamarind tree produces edible, pod-like fruit which is used extensively in cuisines around the world. Other uses include traditional medicine and metal polish. The wood can be used in carpentry. Because of the tamarind's many uses, cultivation has spread around the world in tropical and subtropical zones.
Usage examples of "tamarind".
Indian villages on the coast, cinchona bark, caucho, tobacco, orchilla weed, sarsaparilla, and tamarinds.
Lusty of Covent Garden, hilsa fish in tamarind sauce, chicken served with many vegetable dishes and a platter of rice, and a towering sugary model of the Taj Mahal accompanied by a mango water ice.
He made us want to see the lush, green country, the big houses with their lawns dominated by the spreading banyan trees, the stately pipal and feathery tamarind, but most of all to see the people .
The fruit of the Tamarind is certainly antibilious, and by the virtue of its potash salts it tends to heal any sore places within the mouth.
The full moon had just risen above a tope of tamarind trees, and its silvern radiance revealed every detail of the scene.
I on the other hand had ostentatiously ordered in Swahili: mogo, otherwise known as cassava, served with a tamarind chutney, brinjal curry, karahi karela, tarka dhal and rotis to show my cosmopolitanism.
The complex fills two blocks on the southern side of Tamarind Avenue, which runs parallel to Pindo Palm Boulevard about a mile to the north.
On them are splendid royal and date palms, palmettoes and tamarinds, but occupants have found skull-and-crossbones notices upon these trees, which latterly they have obeyed, influenced thereto by seven mysterious deaths which have occurred in the vicinity.
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea.
I remember the rainbow-coloured harbour of Honolulu Hilo, the simply joyous Arcadie at the foot of Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea which lifted violet shoulders to the morning, the groves of cocoa-palms and tamarinds, the waterfalls dropping over sheer precipices a thousand feet into the ocean, the green embrasures where the mango, the guava, and the lovi lovi grow, and where the hibiscus lifts red hands to the light.
Bullocks had been turning over coals since the preceding day, with good bastings of oil, onion juice, garlic and syrup of tamarind.
Lesnick knew that chauffeuring a dead man in the back seat and the second two victims brought to Tamarind Street were a pure subconscious attempt to be caught.
It is situated on a long, uneven hill, at the foot of which lies the beautiful valley of the Juanjibos and Boqueron Rivers, which is made a veritable garden of enchantment by the orange, lemon, and tamarind trees, together with various other plants, growing there in abundance.
Danny started to say no, then remembered the bogus paramour who helped him brazen out Tamarind.
And the big fear and big questions: if LAPD canvassed Tamarind, would a local report the tan 1947 Chevrolet parked outside 2307 overnight?