monkeypod
nounUK /ˈmʌŋkipɒd/
Etymology From monkey + pod.
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, Grove Press, page 231:
2
Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
3
Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
4
Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
5
Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)
- Synonyms
- rain tree, saman, paradise nut, sweet Inga, Madrasthorn, Manila tamarind
- Related terms
- monkey pot