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Definitions: Tamarind |
TamarindNoun1. 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. 2. Large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tamarind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Fruit of the Tamarindus indica ; Tamarindus officinalis. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The Tamarind (alternative name Indian Date) is a tropical tree, originally from east Africa but now introduced into most of the tropic Asia as well as Latin America. The tree can grow up to 20 meters in height, and stays evergreen in regions without a dry season. The leaves consist of 10 to 18 leaflets.
The pulp of the fruit is used as a spice both in Asian as well as in Latin American cuisine, and is also a important ingredient to Worcestershire sauce. Both the pulp as well as the bark also have medical applications.
The tamarind is the provincial tree of the Phetchabun province of Thailand.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tamarind."
Synonyms: TamarindSynonyms: tamarind tree (n), tamarindo (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tamarind |
| English words defined with "tamarind": Lysiloma bahamensis, Lysiloma latisiliqua ♦ manila tamarind ♦ Spanish tamarind ♦ Tamarind fish, tamarind tree ♦ Velvet tamarind ♦ Wild tamarind. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tamarind" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (tamarind), Swedish (tamarind). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Tamarind Seed (1974) | |
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Human Rights | Belize | In March 2000, a visiting judge sentenced two inmates at the Hattieville prison to be flogged with a tamarind whip as punishment for assaulting and nearly killing another inmate. (references) |
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| "Tamarind" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tamarind" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tamarind": Malabar Tamarind ♦ manila tamarind ♦ spanish tamarind ♦ Tamarind fish ♦ tamarind tree ♦ velvet tamarind ♦ wild tamarind. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tamarind | 140 |
tamarind paste | 17 |
tamarind tree | 12 |
tamarind cove | 10 |
tamarind chutney | 10 |
tamarind fruit | 10 |
tamarind cove barbados | 9 |
tamarind restaurant | 8 |
tamarind sauce | 8 |
agriculture tamarind | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tamarind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | marinë (marine, navy). (various references) | |
Arabic | تمر هندي, شجرة التمر الهندي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тамаринд, вид тропическо дърво, вид тропически плод (custard-apple). (various references) | |
Chinese | 罗望子 . (various references) | |
Czech | tamarind. (various references) | |
Danish | tamarind. (various references) | |
Dutch | tamarindevrucht. (various references) | |
Farsi | تمبرهندی(گ.ش.). (various references) | |
Finnish | tamarindipuu (tamarind tree). (various references) | |
French | tamarin (tamarin, tamarind tree). (various references) | |
German | Tamarinde. (various references) | |
Greek | οξυφοίνιξ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תמר "ו"י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tamarindusz-fa gyümölcse. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pohon asam, kandi (acid, pouch, small bag, sour). (various references) | |
Italian | tamarindo (tamarind tree). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amarindtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tamarindo (tamarind tree). (various references) | |
Russian | тамаринд. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tamarinda. (various references) | |
Spanish | tamarindo (tamarind tree). (various references) | |
Swedish | tamarind (tamarind tree). (various references) | |
Thai | ต้นมะขาม, มะขาม. (various references) | |
Turkish | demirhindi. (various references) | |
Ukranian | тамаринд. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | TAMARINDUS INDICA. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tamarind": tamarinds. (additional references) | |
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"Tamarind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amarin, Amerind, Amerindo, atabrin, jamaran, Kamarina, Tabarin, tamarins, tamrind, taramind, Tidarren, Toamasina, Tommasini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: martian, radiant, tamarin. | |
-2 letters: aidman, airman, amrita, antiar, aramid, mantid, mantra, marina, martin, radian, tamari. | |
-3 letters: adman, admit, amain, amnia, anima, antra, atman, atria, daman, damar, dinar, drain, drama, inarm, manat, mania, manta, maria, matin, nadir, naiad, naira, ranid, ratan, riant, riata, tiara, train, triad. | |
-4 letters: adit, airn, airt, amia, amid, amin, amir, anta, anti, aria, arid, atma, damn, darn, dart, data, dint, dirt, dita, dram, drat, maar, maid, main, mair, mana, mart, mina, mind, mint, nada, nard, raia, raid, rain, rami, rand, rani, rant, rind, tain, tarn, trad, tram, trim. | |
-5 letters: aid, aim, ain, air, ait, ama, ami, ana, and, ani, ant, arm, art, dam, dim, din, dit, mad, man, mar, mat, mid, mir, nam, nim, nit, rad, ram, ran, rat, ria, rid, rim, rin, tad, tam, tan, tar, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: marinated, tamarinds. | |
+2 letters: admiration, animadvert, marginated, reanimated, undramatic. | |
+3 letters: admirations, adumbrating, adumbration, animadverts, demarcating, demarcation, disarmament, dramatising, dramatizing, intradermal, maidservant, mandarinate, mandataries, mandatories, mandatorily, nondramatic. | |
+4 letters: administrant, administrate, adumbrations, animadverted, demarcations, disarmaments, maidservants, mainstreamed, mandarinates, monodramatic, trademarking, undramatized. | |
+5 letters: administrable, administrants, administrated, administrates, administrator, animadverting, archimandrite, deformational, determinantal, diathermanous, disparagement, documentarian, draftsmanship, dramatisation, dramatization, intradermally, maladminister, maladroitness, mediterranean, mistranslated, randomization, rhadamanthine, transmigrated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6D 61 72 69 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -- .- .-. .. -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a m a r i n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006D 0061 0072 0069 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467796784758070 |
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