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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
   - manila tamarind, camachile, huamachil, Pithecellobium dulce
    
2. A tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods
   - Lysiloma latisiliqua, Lysiloma bahamensis

Derived forms: wild tamarinds

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Lysiloma, genus Pithecellobium, genus Pithecolobium, Lysiloma, Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium

Encyclopedia: Wild tamarind