monkeypod

Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.

Noun

  1. Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.
    • 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. - 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom,...
  2. Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
  3. Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
  4. Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
  5. Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)

Origin

From monkey + pod.

Forms

monkeypods

Synonyms

rain tree saman paradise nut sweet Inga Madrasthorn Manila tamarind

Related

monkey pot