hot bean

From hot + bean, from the bean's steep increase in temperature after being rubbed on a hard surface. Children sometimes use this property in pranks.


angico

Scattered about everywhere, bundles of angico bark, scored through with the aid of a hammer and a knife.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 66:

I recorded that rock cavies were known to eat the bark of the angico tree, a local tree with a bark rich in tannins that was used to tan goat hides.

2009, Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling, page 190:

A leguminous tree, Anadenanthera colubrina, native to South America, with traditional medicinal properties and tannin-rich wood used in tanning.


umburana

"For safety I maintained my distance from that ill-famed house and settled under an umburana tree at the curve of a road."

1970, Josué de Castro, translated by Susan Hertelendy, Of Men and Crabs, page 102:

Two calves frisked outside beneath the umburana tree.

1972, Peggie Benton, One Man Against the Drylands:

Once again he sees the landscape […] become a phantasmagoria, with strange human fruit hanging from the umburanas and the thornbushes, and boots, scabbards, tunics, kepis dangling from the branches.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 343:

A species of leguminous tree, Amburana cearensis, native to South America and often used for timber.


bastard teak

en-noun

bastard teak (countable and uncountable, plural bastard teaks)

Butea monosperma
Butea monosperma#Translingual

Butea monosperma, of south and southeast Asia, with many uses.


kadala

kadala (usually uncountable, plural kadalas)

Borrowed from Dravidian languages, compare Malayalam കടല (kaṭala), Tamil கடலை (kaṭalai).


engordacabra

Dalea bicolor, a leguminous shrub of Mexico.


Japanese clover

Japanese clover (plural Japanese clovers)

annual lespedeza, common lespedeza, Japanese bush-clover, Japanese lespedeza, striate lespedeza (Kummerowia striata, syn. Lespedeza striata)


haak-en-steek

(South Africa) The plant Acacia tortilis.


sangdragon

Sangdragons (Pterocarpus indicus) are large, graceful trees with large roots growing from the side of the trunk like flying buttresses and a sap which is blood red […]

1997, Sarah Carpin, Seychelles, page 83:

Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus#Translingual


yellow pea

A yellow-flowered leguminous herb, Lathyrus aphaca, native to the Middle East.


coral bean

A flowering plant of species Erythrina herbacea


turtle bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

A variety of species Phaseolus vulgaris, common in Latin America and the bean it produces.


golden chain tree

golden chain tree (plural golden chain trees)


sweet thorn

An acacia of species Vachellia karroo, of southern Africa.


monkey-ear tree

monkey-ear tree (plural monkey-ear trees)

Enterolobium cyclocarpum, a tropical tree of the Americas.


conacaste

Enterolobium cyclocarpum, the monkey-ear tree.


elephant-ear tree

elephant-ear tree (plural elephant-ear trees)

The monkey-ear tree, Enterolobium cyclocarpum


kersenneh

Borrowed from Arabic كِرْسِنَّة (kirsinna).

bor+

Vicia ervilia
Vicia ervilia#Translingual


ground pea

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea#Translingual

(chiefly Southern US) A peanut (Arachis hypogaea).

(chiefly Northeastern US) Apios americana, a climbing vine of eastern North America.


peacock flower

Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Caesalpinia pulcherrima#Translingual

A tropical leguminous bush Caesalpinia pulcherrima (syn. Poinciana pulcherrimus) with prickly branches and showy yellow or red flowers.


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.


purging cassia

Cassia fistula
Cassia fistula#Translingual


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.


umbrella thorn

The acacia tree Vachellia tortilis heteracantha


poponax

A thorny tree native to the Americas, Vachellia tortuosa.


suckling clover

en-noun

suckling clover (plural suckling clovers)


licorice milkvetch

Astragalus glycyphyllus, an herb native to Europe and West and Central Asia.


pride of Barbados

Peacock flower (Caesalpinia pulcherrima).


umzimbeet

umzimbeet (countable and uncountable, plural umzimbeets)

Borrowed from Zulu umSimbithwa. Compare Afrikaans omsambeet, omzambeet, oesambiet.

Millettia grandis, a species of flowering legume tree native to South Africa.


cinnamon wattle

cinnamon wattle (plural cinnamon wattles)


wood vetch

Vicia sylvatica, an herbaceous plant found from Western Europe to Siberia.


harlequin annual lupine

harlequin annual lupine (plural harlequin annual lupines)


shame weed

Mimosa pudica
Mimosa pudica#Translingual


shakeshake

Crotalaria incana, a tropical American plant, also introduced to many other tropical regions.


strawberry clover

strawberry clover (plural strawberry clovers)

Trifolium fragiferum, a clover of Europe and West Asia.