monkeypod
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Etymology
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Noun
monkeypod (plural monkeypods)
- Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 231:
- Tears filled the eyes of some of the people heading to work that morning who heard the strains of music in the deposed queen's harden, among its tamarind and monkeypod trees.
- Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
- Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
- Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
- Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)
Synonyms
- (Albizia saman): rain tree, saman
- (Lecythis ollaria): paradise nut
- (Pithecellobium dulce): sweet Inga, Madrasthorn, Manila tamarind
- (Senna petersiana): (eared cassia, eared senna)