acacia

en-noun

acacia (countable and uncountable, plural acacias or acaciae)

→ Pohnpeian: akesia

From Latin acacia, from Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía, “shittah tree”), either from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) (compare ἀκή (akḗ, “point”)) or more likely a Pre-Greek word. First attested before 1398. Doublet of cassie.

der

Robinia pseudoacacia
Robinia pseudoacacia#Translingual

A false acacia; robinia tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).


acacia

nl-noun

acacia m (plural acacia's, diminutive acaciaatje n)

acacia's (plural)
acaciaatje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: akasia

Borrowed from Latin acacia, from Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía).

a shrub or tree of a species that belongs to the genus Acacia


babul

Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi बबूल (babūl, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit वव्वोल (vavvola, “acacia”).

In place of Putney's golden gorse / The sickly babul blooms.

1884, Rudyard Kipling, The Moon of Other Days:

A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.


ironwood

en-noun

ironwood (countable and uncountable, plural ironwoods)

From iron + wood, because of its toughness.

ijzerhout

any of a number of tree species known for having a particularly solid wood

Lydia and the boys lived in a shabby, prefabricated house of three rooms, which had been set down in the shade of an ironwood.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 139:

Any of numerous tree species known locally for having a particularly solid wood, or the wood of such species itself.

(Australia) Acacia esthrophiolata, Acacia excelsa, Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia stenophylla, or Erythrophleum chlorostachys.


bablah

bablah (usually uncountable, plural bablahs)

Compare Persian ببول (babul, “a species of mimosa yielding gum arabic”), Sanskrit बब्बुल (babbula), बब्बूल (babbūla, “species of acacia used for tanning”).

cog

Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia nilotica#Translingual

The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia, especially Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.


aroma

Vachellia farnesiana
Vachellia farnesiana#Translingual


wattle

en-noun

wattle (countable and uncountable, plural wattles)

From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

der

The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.

1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, page 16:

Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.


Acacia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía, “shittah tree”), from ἀκή (akḗ, “point”), probably from Egyptian.

bor+

An epithet in a botanical name at the rank between species and genus, a name which applies to a section of the genus Acacia.

Acacia anarthros

(genus, sensu stricto): Acacia penninervis (blackwood, hickory wattle, mountain hickory) - type species


koa

Borrowed from Hawaiian koa. Doublet of toa.

As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle.

2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 59:

The outer frame is made of koa and maple.

2007 March 18, Anne Eisenberg, “How to Soften the Edges of Technology”, in New York Times:

At her funeral, Likelike's body was placed in a polished koa coffin, adorned with sprays of gardenia […].

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 122:

A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.


gidgee

Acacia homalophylla, A. Cunn., B. Fl., ii., 383. "Curly or Narrow-leaved Yarran." A "Myall." Called also "Gidgee."

1890, Joseph Henry Maiden, Wattles and Wattle-barks: Being Hints on the Conservation and Cultivation of Wattles, Together with Particulars of Their Value:

Since my early days of droving the years have taken toll, / But I somehow miss my swag wrap by a fire of gidgee coal.

1964, Stan Coster (lyrics and music), “By a Fire of Gidgee Coal”:

Although he lay with some sense of security beneath a gidgee tree, his father's totem, he was brooding about how he could get rid of the pigeons.

1997, Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 186

(Australia) Any of various trees of the genus Acacia, especially Acacia cambagei.


blackwood

en-noun

blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)

(countable) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.

Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia


myall

myall (countable and uncountable, plural myalls)

Aboriginal, perhaps a transferred use of Etymology 1, above.

1859, John McDouall Stuart, journal entry, Third Expedition (In the vicinity of Lake Torrens, Explorations in Australia - The Journals of John McDouall Stuart, Echo Library, 2006, page 57,
Friday, 30th December, Hanson Range. […] Changed our course to a very prominent hill (which I have named Mount Arthur) bearing 275 degrees, and after crossing two small myall creeks and a stony plain with salt bush and grass, at ten miles we struck a large myall and gum creek, coming from the north-west, with some very deep channels.

The durable, dark-colored wood of the coast myall or mountain brigalow (A. glaucescens) has been likened to that of English walnut.

1968, Thomas H. Everett, Living Trees of the World, page 185:

Any of various Australian acacias, especially the weeping myall, Acacia pendula, or the wood of such trees.


mulga

Ford (1969) points out that it is distributed from southern Northern Territory and northern South Australia west through mulga country of the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts to the coast of Western Australia.

1981, Joseph Michael Forshaw, William T. Cooper, Australian Parrots, page 246:

1983, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, The Queensland Journal of Agriculture and Animal Science, Volumes 40-42, page 68,
This paper describes a preliminary field experiment designed to examine the effect of supplementing sheep fed mulga with several proprietary licks and a more comprehensive field experiment to evaluate the effect of the most promising lick fed with cottonseed meal.

There are several different types of mulga, and Anangu know the different food which comes from them. For example, insects make a thing like a small apple on the pakuta (horse mulga). This one is good to eat but there is another one on a different sort of mulga which is not edible.

1996, Lynn Baker, Mingkiri: A Natural history of Ulu−ru by the Mu−titjulu Community, page 26:

The return of mulgas, native grasses and other shrubs was finally giving wildlife researchers some hope that numerous animals on the endangered species list might yet be saved if their ecosystems could be restored.

2002, Brad Collis, Fields of Discovery: Australia′s CSIRO, Australia: CSIRO, page 15:

(Australia) Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.

keihäsakaasia

small acacia tree, especially Acacia aneura


catechu

catechu (countable and uncountable, plural catechus)

/ˈkæt.əˌt͡ʃuː/

/ˈkæt.əˌʃuː/

Probably a corruption of the Malay kacu.

The pale catechus are usually sweeter and more pleasant for chewing.

1837, Jonathan Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica: Lecture LXI”, in London Medical Gazette, volume XX, page 107:

A gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae, but especially Senegalia catechu, produced by boiling the wood of the tree in water and evaporating the resulting liquid.

খৈৰ

a gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae


gaggia

From Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía). Doublet of acacia.


shittah

Hebrew שִׁטָּה, usually expressed in the irregular plural שִׁטִּים

uder

Hebrew שִׁטָּה

A tree said in the Bible to have furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been red acacia, of species Vachellia seyal (formerly Acacia seyal).


yarran

Acacia homalophylla, a species of acacia tree found commonly in Australia.


snakewood

en-noun

snakewood (usually uncountable, plural snakewoods)

Any of various North American shrubs of the genus Colubrina (family Rhamnaceae), often specifically Colubrina texensis.


akasya

Borrowed from Spanish acacia, from Latin acacia, from Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía, “a thorny Egyptian tree”).


spearwood

From spear + wood; named for the use made of the wood by Australian Aborigines to make spear shafts.

1976, Society for Growing Australian Plants, Australian Plants, Volume 9, Issue 69 - Volume 10, Issue 84, page 379,
Clinging to the sparse soil beneath the trees are the hardy acacias — Spearwood (Acacia doratoxylon), with its long, narrow leaves (up to 10cm long by 2-5mm wide), a tall shrub with golden-yellow flower spikes to 2cm; […] .

(Australia) The shrub Acacia doratoxylon.


whitethorn

Crataegus monogyna
Crataegus monogyna#Translingual

Crataegus monogyna, a hawthorn species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.

Bursaria spinosa, a small Australian shrub.

Vachellia constricta, formerly Acacia constricta, whitethorn acacia, a shrub in the family Fabaceae.

Ceanothus leucodermis, chaparral whitethorn, a shrub in the family Rhamnaceae.


brigalow

Perhaps from Gamilaraay burrii + plural suffix.

Any of various Australian acacia trees, especially Acacia harpophylla of New South Wales and Queensland.


lightwood

From light (“bright, pale”, adjective) + wood (noun).

affix

Any of various trees with pale-coloured wood, especially the Australian tree Acacia melanoxylon.


gonakie

An African timber tree, Vachellia nilotica subsp. adstringens, formerly Acacia adansonii.


monkeypod

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:

Albizia saman
Albizia saman#Translingual

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

Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)

Pithecellobium dulce
Pithecellobium dulce#Translingual


huisache

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huixachin (literally “many thorns”), from huitztli (“thorn”) + ixachi (“a lot, great in quantity”).

bor+

the needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America


აკაცია

ka-noun

აკაცია • (aḳacia) (plural აკაციები)

aḳacia (romanization)
აკაციები (plural)
აკაცია (nominative singular)
აკაციები (nominative plural)
აკაციანი (archaic nominative plural)
აკაციამ (ergative singular)
აკაციებმა (ergative plural)
აკაციათ (archaic ergative plural)
აკაციათ (archaic ergative plural)
აკაციათაt) (archaic ergative plural)
აკაციათაta) (archaic ergative plural)
აკაციას (dative singular)
აკაციას (dative singular)
აკაციასაs) (dative singular)
აკაციასაsa) (dative singular)
აკაციებს (dative plural)
აკაციებს (dative plural)
აკაციებსაs) (dative plural)
აკაციებსაsa) (dative plural)
აკაციათ (archaic dative plural)
აკაციათ (archaic dative plural)
აკაციათაt) (archaic dative plural)
აკაციათაta) (archaic dative plural)
აკაციის (genitive singular)
აკაციის (genitive singular)
აკაციისაs) (genitive singular)
აკაციისაsa) (genitive singular)
აკაციების (genitive plural)
აკაციების (genitive plural)
აკაციებისაs) (genitive plural)
აკაციებისაsa) (genitive plural)
აკაციათ (archaic genitive plural)
აკაციათ (archaic genitive plural)
აკაციათაt) (archaic genitive plural)
აკაციათაta) (archaic genitive plural)
აკაციით (instrumental singular)
აკაციით (instrumental singular)
აკაციითაt) (instrumental singular)
აკაციითაta) (instrumental singular)
აკაციებით (instrumental plural)
აკაციებით (instrumental plural)
აკაციებითაt) (instrumental plural)
აკაციებითაta) (instrumental plural)
აკაციად (adverbial singular)
აკაციად (adverbial singular)
აკაციადაd) (adverbial singular)
აკაციადაda) (adverbial singular)
აკაციებად (adverbial plural)
აკაციებად (adverbial plural)
აკაციებადაd) (adverbial plural)
აკაციებადაda) (adverbial plural)
აკაციავ (singular vocative)
აკაციებო (plural vocative)
აკაციანო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე
აკაციაზე (singular)
აკაციებზე (plural)
-თან
აკაციასთან (singular)
აკაციებთან (plural)
-ში
აკაციაში (singular)
აკაციებში (plural)
-ვით
აკაციასავით (singular)
აკაციებივით (plural)
-თვის
აკაციისთვის (singular)
აკაციებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ
აკაციისებრ (singular)
აკაციებისებრ (plural)
-კენ
აკაციისკენ (singular)
აკაციებისკენ (plural)
-გან
აკაციისგან (singular)
აკაციებისგან (plural)
-ადმი
აკაციისადმი (singular)
აკაციებისადმი (plural)
-დან
აკაციიდან (singular)
აკაციებიდან (plural)
-ურთ
აკაციითურთ (singular)
აკაციებითურთ (plural)
-მდე
აკაციამდე (singular)
აკაციებამდე (plural)

→ Mingrelian: ლაკაცია (laḳacia)

Borrowed from Russian ака́ция (akácija).


juwansa

camelthorn (Vachellia eriloba, formerly Acacia erioloba)


boree

(Australia) Any of various species of wattle tree (genus Acacia), especially Acacia pendula and Acacia glaucescens.


coojong

Acacia saligna, an Australian shrub wattle


mulga apple

A gall on the mulga tree Acacia aneura, said to taste like an apple.


cassie

en-noun

cassie (countable and uncountable, plural cassies)

(US) A thorny shrub with fragrant yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana; the needle bush.


తుమ్మ

The babul tree, Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica, which produces gum arabic.


నల్లతుమ్మ

te-noun

నల్లతుమ్మ • (nallatumma) ? (plural నల్లతుమ్మలు)

nallatumma (romanization)
నల్లతుమ్మలు (plural)

type of babul tree: Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica.


తెల్లతుమ్మ

తెల్లతుమ్మ • (tellatumma) ? (plural తెల్లతుమ్మలు)

tellatumma (romanization)
తెల్లతుమ్మలు (plural)

(botany) kind of babul tree: Acasia leucoploea.


నాగతుమ్మ

నాగతుమ్మ • (nāgatumma) ? (plural నాగతుమ్మలు)

nāgatumma (romanization)
నాగతుమ్మలు (plural)

(botany) a kind of babul tree (Vachellia farnesiana, syn. Acacia farnesiana).


bastard umbrella thorn

en-noun

bastard umbrella thorn (plural bastard umbrella thorns)


huajillo

From Spanish guajillo, from Michoacán Nahuatl huāxin plus -illo. Cognate with English guajillo.

The shrub Senegalia berlandieri, formerly Acacia berlandieri.


guajillo

A huajillo, a shrub of species Senegalia berlandieri (syn. Acacia berlandieri).


catclaw

From cat + claw, because its branches bear many small hooks which resemble cats' claws.

An acacia, specifically Acacia greggii, now Senegalia greggii, native to most of the border region of the US and Mexico.


dead finish

Acacia tetragonophylla, an Australian tree.


cat's claw

Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.

Senegalia greggii, formerly Acacia greggii, a tree species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Mimosa nuttallii (formerly Schrankia nuttalli), a plant native to the Midwestern United States


umbrella tree

Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).

1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:


camelthorn

From Dutch kameeldoorn, Afrikaans kameeldoring. Equivalent to camel + thorn.

Alhagi, a genus of shrubs native to northern Africa and Asia Minor.


devil's claw

Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:

Harpagophytum spp., especially Harpagophytum procumbens, native to South Africa.

Proboscidea spp. (mule grab, unicorn plant)

Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia, formerly Acacia greggii)


wait-a-while

Originally after South African Dutch wacht-en-beetje; compare wait-a-bit.

In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.

1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 136:

(Australia) Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.


acàcia

Learned borrowing from Latin acacia, from Ancient Greek ἀκακία (akakía) "a thorny Egyptian tree", from ἀκή (akḗ) "point, thorn".


акаций

(botany) acacia, thorn tree, whistling thorn, wattle (Acacia)


bugwood

Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream

1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578:


wirilda

It grows on branches of wirilda wattle, and is no longer common in the area, although it can also be seen on wirildas along the cliff walk at Queenscliff.

2013, Graham Patterson, Coastal guide to nature and history: Port Phillip Bay, page 27:

An Australian acacia tree, Acacia retinodes, which has edible seeds.


minnerichi

Acacia cyperophylla, a fabaceous tree of Australia.


swarthaak

The vegetation on this plateau is chiefly vaal and rosyntjiebos, with areas of swarthaak and Karroo veld.

1947, Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association, page 156:

On the farm of my boyhood friend Gys there had also been a row of old Griqua graves in the open veld among the swarthaak thorn-trees, far from the house […].

1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 302:

Some of the main, or pioneering woody invaders in various parts are: Acacia mellifera var. detinens, known as swarthaak, which has invaded about 2 million ha, notably in the northern Cape and western Transvaal […].

2013, Holzner & Numata, editor, Biology and ecology of weeds, page 430:

(South Africa) An African thorn tree, Senegalia mellifera.


fever tree

To write of fever in the home of the far-famed “fever tree,” without adding a word upon its merits, would look like denying it honour in its own country; and to avoid that appearance of ingratitude, a leaf will now be gleaned from indigenous blue-gum literature.

1874, William Thomson, On Typhoid Fever, page 195:

Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.

1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:

An acacia tree, Vachellia xanthophloea, native to eastern and southern Africa, with fragrant yellow flowers.


popinac

Variant of opopanax, a shrub (Opopanax chironium).

Vachellia farnesiana (syn. Acacia farnesiana), a widely cultivated thorny shrubby acacia of the southern U.S. and tropical America with fragrant ball-shaped yellow flowers.


needle bush

Any of certain shrubs with needle-like leaves.

Of genus Hakea, especially of species Hakea lissosperma and Hakea preissii, native to Australia.


sweet acacia

sweet acacia (countable and uncountable, plural sweet acacias)

Acacia suaveolens (sweet wattle), a shrub endemic to Australia.

Vachellia farnesiana (needle bush, popinac), native to Mexico and Central America, and widely introduced.


thorn tree

From Middle English thornetre; equivalent to thorn + tree.

They then came together to hear the preaching of the Gospel; but I postponed it till the evening, because I was then exceedingly wearied. The captain shewed me a large old thorn tree for a lodging.

1811, “Visit to the Great Namaquas”, in The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, volume 6, page 466:

Thirty feet below her, where the Persians were crashing through the brush, the streambed kinked to the left side of the ravine and ran under an enormous thorn tree with a thick base.

2007 April 1, Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat: Book One of 'The Oath of Empire', page 294:

I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.

2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, page 109:

Any tree with thorn-like leaves, especially the acacia.


knobthorn

Senegalia nigrescens, a deciduous African tree found in savanna regions.


desert oak

We passed through a stand of desert oaks, which are a species of casuarina and look less like an oak than a cactus.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 144:

Molly and Gracie spent a lovely weekend with their families digging for kulgu yams and collecting bunches of yellow flowers from the desert oaks, which they brought home to share with those who stayed behind to take care of the old people and the dogs.

1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 169

(Australia) Any of several trees of dry parts of Australia, especially Acacia coriacea, Acacia sericophylla, and Allocasuarina decaisneana.


soap acacia

soap acacia (countable and uncountable, plural soap acacias)

A plant of species Senegalia rugata (syn. Acacia concinna).


bendee

Probably from a Queensland Aboriginal language.

On the flank of the rise the African buffel grass gave way to bare patches of red gravel between thin strands of sandalwood and bendee, spiky tussocks of purple wiregrass and buck spinifex.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 47:

Acacia catenulata, a species of acacia tree endemic to some arid areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia.


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दृढबीज

dṛḍhabīja (romanization)
दृढबीजः (nominative singular)
दृढबीजौ (dual nominative)
दृढबीजा1 (dual nominative)
दृढबीजाः (nominative plural)
दृढबीजासः1 (nominative plural)
दृढबीज (singular vocative)
दृढबीजौ (dual vocative)
दृढबीजा1 (dual vocative)
दृढबीजाः (plural vocative)
दृढबीजासः1 (plural vocative)
दृढबीजम् (accusative singular)
दृढबीजौ (accusative dual)
दृढबीजा1 (accusative dual)
दृढबीजान् (accusative plural)
दृढबीजेन (instrumental singular)
दृढबीजाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
दृढबीजैः (instrumental plural)
दृढबीजेभिः1 (instrumental plural)
दृढबीजाय (dative singular)
दृढबीजाभ्याम् (dative dual)
दृढबीजेभ्यः (dative plural)
दृढबीजात् (ablative singular)
दृढबीजाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
दृढबीजेभ्यः (ablative plural)
दृढबीजस्य (genitive singular)
दृढबीजयोः (dual genitive)
दृढबीजानाम् (genitive plural)
दृढबीजे (locative singular)
दृढबीजयोः (dual locative)
दृढबीजेषु (locative plural)

/d̪r̩.ɖʱɐˈbiː.d͡ʑɐ/

From दृढ (dṛḍha, “hard, strong”) + बीज (bīja, “seed”).

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gum arabic tree (Vachellia nilotica, syn. Acacia arabica)

Ziziphus jujuba
Ziziphus jujuba#Translingual

sickle senna (Senna tora, syn. Cassia tora)


yellow acacia

A tall, fast-growing acacia, of species Acacia auriculiformis, native to Indonesia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.


jamwood

The hard timber of the jam tree (Acacia acuminata).


chinchilla wattle

en-noun

chinchilla wattle (plural chinchilla wattles)

Acacia chinchillensis, a species of flowering plant native to Australia.


Tasmanian blackwood

Tasmanian blackwood (plural Tasmanian blackwoods)

He led the way into a small bedroom with green skirting and mustard yellow panels carved from Tasmanian blackwood.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 304

The four walls of the library's reading room are covered from the floor almost to the ceiling in Tasmanian-blackwood bookcases.

2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 167:

A tree, Acacia melanoxylon, native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, or (especially) the dark wood of this tree.


sallee wattle

The gate was five-barred, put together from crooked tree limbs, grey corkwood and sally wattle, iron coachbolts drilled through at the joints […].

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 127:

(Australia) Any of various Australian acacias, especially Acacia longifolia of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.


aromer hòrrid

ca-noun

aromer hòrrid m (plural aromers hòrrids)


акацыя

be-noun

ака́цыя • (akácyja) f inan (genitive ака́цыі, nominative plural ака́цыі, genitive plural ака́цый)

ака́цыя (canonical)
akácyja (romanization)
ака́цыі (genitive)
ака́цыі (nominative plural)
ака́цый (genitive plural)
ака́цыя (nominative singular)
ака́цыі (nominative plural)
ака́цыі (genitive singular)
ака́цый (genitive plural)
ака́цыі (dative singular)
ака́цыям (dative plural)
ака́цыю (accusative singular)
ака́цыі (accusative plural)
ака́цыяй (instrumental singular)
ака́цыяю (instrumental singular)
ака́цыямі (instrumental plural)
ака́цыі (locative singular)
ака́цыях (locative plural)
ака́цыі (count-form plural)


akācija

akācija (nominative singular)
akācijas (nominative plural)
akāciju (accusative singular)
akācijas (accusative plural)
akācijas (genitive singular)
akāciju (genitive plural)
akācijai (dative singular)
akācijām (dative plural)
akāciju (instrumental singular)
akācijām (instrumental plural)
akācijā (locative singular)
akācijās (locative plural)
akācija (singular vocative)
akācijas (plural vocative)


खदिरक

Central:

Hindustani: khairā

Hindi: खैरा

Urdu: کھَیرَا (khairā)

Eastern:

Bengali: খৈরা (khōira)

Odia: ଖଇରା (khairā)

Northwestern:

Punjabi: khairā

Gurmukhi script: ਖੈਰਾ

Shahmukhi script: کھَیرَا

Southern:

Dhivehi: ކައިރު (kairu), ކައިރި (kairi)

Marathi: खैरा (khairā)

Western:

Gujarati: ખેરો (khero)


haak-en-steek

(South Africa) The plant Acacia tortilis.


kameeldoring

→ English: camelthorn (calque)

/kɑˈmɪə̯ɫˌdʊə̯.rəŋ/

From Dutch kameeldoorn. Equivalent to kameel (“giraffe, camel”) + doring (“thorn”).


silver wattle

Dogs were heard howling and there was a rustle in the silver wattle.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 160

(Australia) Any of various shrubs of the genus Acacia having silvery foliage, especially Acacia dealbata of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.


golden wattle

Golden wattle, on the other hand, that capricious, fluffy-dusty do-gooder of a plant, will produce an entirely different result.

2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 56:

(Australia) A small flowering tree, Acacia pycnantha, of southeastern Australia.


poponax

A thorny tree native to the Americas, Vachellia tortuosa.


umbrella thorn

The acacia tree Vachellia tortilis heteracantha


saaduakatsia

saaduakatsia (nominative singular)
saaduakatsiat (nominative plural)
saaduakatsian (genitive singular)
saaduakatsioin (genitive plural)
saaduakatsiaa (partitive singular)
saaduakatsioja (partitive plural)
saaduakatsiaa (illative singular)
saaduakatsioi (illative plural)
saaduakatsias (inessive singular)
saaduakatsiois (inessive plural)
saaduakatsiast (elative singular)
saaduakatsioist (elative plural)
saaduakatsialle (allative singular)
saaduakatsioille (allative plural)
saaduakatsial (adessive singular)
saaduakatsioil (adessive plural)
saaduakatsialt (ablative singular)
saaduakatsioilt (ablative plural)
saaduakatsiaks (singular translative)
saaduakatsioiks (plural translative)
saaduakatsianna (essive singular)
saaduakatsiaan (essive singular)
saaduakatsioinna (essive plural)
saaduakatsioin (essive plural)
saaduakatsiant (exessive singular)
saaduakatsioint (exessive plural)

[ˈs̠ɑːduˌɑkɑˌt͡s̠iɑ]

[ˈʃɑːd̥uˌɑɡ̊ɑˌt͡siɑ]

From saadu (“garden”) + akatsia (“acacia”), calque of Russian садовая акация (sadovaja akacija).

calque

садовая акация

Variloil kesäpäiviil lohkijelloot kuivat saaduakatsian plodat.

1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

In the hot summer days the hard fruits of the needle bush crack open.


വച്ചേലിയ

head

വച്ചേലിയ • (vaccēliya)

ml-noun

വച്ചേലിയ • (vaccēliya)

/ʋɐt͡ʃt͡ʃeːlijɐ/

(botany) vachellia (Vachellia genus plants)


cinnamon wattle

en-noun

cinnamon wattle (plural cinnamon wattles)


Acacia dictyophleba

Acacia f + New Latin dictyophleba f (“net-veined”).

affix

A taxonomic species within the family Fabaceae – sandhill wattle, of Australia.


金合歡

цзиньхэхуань

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵ xu̯än⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵ xu̯än⁵⁵/

(informal) Any species of Acacia sensu lato.


ส้มป่อย

th-noun

ส้มป่อย • (sôm-bpɔ̀i)

→ English: sompoi

ส้ม (sôm, “orange”) + ปอย (bpɔɔi, “tuft”)


sompoi

Borrowed from Thai ส้มป่อย (sôm-bpɔ̀i), from Thai ส้ม (sôm, “orange, sour”) + Thai ปอย (bpɔɔi, “tuft”), referring to the flowers of the plant.

Acacia concinna, commonly known as Skikakai in Hindi or Sompoi in Thai, is a climbing shrub.

2019 January 17, Jiratchaya Wisetkomolmat, Pongsakorn Suppakittpaisarn, Sarana Rose Sommano, “Detergent Plants of Northern Thailand: Potential Sources of Natural Saponins”, in Resources:

Acacia concinna (Soap pod), known as “Sompoi,” belongs to the family Fabaceae, and widely grows throughout Southern Asia.

2022 October 10, Aunyachulee Ganogpichayagrai, Chutinan Suksaard, “Evaluation of proximate composition and biological activities of sompoi (Acacia concinna) leaves in Thailand”, in Journal of advanced pharmaceutical technology & research.:

Local name [...] Sompoi

(Can we date this quote?), “Acacia concinna DC. (Fabaceae)”, in Local Vegetables of Thailand, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences:

Senegalia rugata (syn. Acacia concinna), a species of acacia which holds importance in several Southeast Asian traditional medicines.