fabaceous

en-adj

fabaceous (comparative more fabaceous, superlative most fabaceous)

more fabaceous (comparative)
most fabaceous (superlative)

From Latin fabaceus, from faba (“bean”).

The fabaceous plants rank second only to the grasses in value as ministrants to the economy of animal life, for they produce food for man and beast in vast abundance, and generally speaking, the aliments derived from this family are of the highest character in point of nourishing power, all of them contributing largely to the nourishment, not only of the muscular and bony framework, but in a peculiar degree also to the nervous system, owing to their richness in nitrogen and salts of phosphorus. In a majority of cases the fabaceous or leguminous plants have pinnated leaves, that is to say, each separate leaf consists of a series of symmetrical divisions united by a common stem.

1870, Shirley Hibberd, Field Flowers a Handy-book for the Rambling Botanist ..., page 78:

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.


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).


tuba

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source. The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”), see there.


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.


indigo

en-noun

indigo (countable and uncountable, plural indigos or indigoes)

/ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/

16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.

der

An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).


hedgehog

/ˈhɛd͡ʒ.hɒɡ/

/ˈhɛd͡ʒ.hɔɡ/

From Middle English heyghoge; equivalent to hedge + hog. Eclipsed non-native Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French hirchoun, herichon (“hedgehog”); and Middle English il, from Old English īl, iġil (“hedgehog”).

(informal, military, historical) A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.


animé

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly from the insects entrapped in it. Doublet of animate.

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

The resin of the courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril), used in varnishes.


gram

en-noun

gram (countable and uncountable, plural grams)

From obsolete Portuguese gram (modern Portuguese grão), from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, granum, and grao.

doublet

The next class of farinaceous foods are the Pulses, as peas, beans, and lentils of this country, and the dholls and grams of India.

A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.

(uncountable) The seeds of these plants.


gram

(broadcasting, dated) A gramophone recording.


gram

Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”).


gram

en-verb

gram (third-person singular simple present grams, present participle gramming, simple past and past participle grammed)

grams (present singular third-person)
gramming (participle present)
grammed (participle past)
grammed (past)


tare

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.


locust

From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.
The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".

sl

Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).

Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.

(Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.


locust

en-verb

locust (third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted)

locusts (present singular third-person)
locusting (participle present)
locusted (participle past)
locusted (past)

This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
Confiscate lands, goods, money […]

1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, (please specify the page):


moth

en-noun

moth (countable and uncountable, plural moths)


dal

dal (countable and uncountable, plural dals)

Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl) or Bengali ডাল (ḍal).

Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.

A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.

1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days:

A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.


lupine

North American English form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).


ironwood

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.


clover

→ Catalan: clóver

From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer (“clover”), West Frisian klaver (“clover”), Dutch klaver (“clover”), German Low German Klaver (“clover”), German Klee (“clover”).

He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.

1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “[A Paraphrase upon the Second Booke of the Psalmes of David.] Psalme LXV.”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC, page 101:

A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.


peanut

From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea#Translingual

A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.


pea

→ Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)

→ Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)

→ Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277:

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual

A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.

(cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.

Man's making bare peas.

Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.

2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):


pea

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

green pea galaxy
green pea galaxy#English

(astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.


pulse

pulse (countable and uncountable, plural pulses)

From Middle English puls (“(collectively) seeds of a leguminous plant used as food; leguminous plants collectively; a species of leguminous plant”), Early Middle English pols (in compounds), possibly from Anglo-Norman pus, puz, Middle French pouls, pols, pous, and Old French pous, pou (“gruel, mash, porridge”) (perhaps in the sense of a gruel made from pulses), or directly from their etymon Latin puls (“meal (coarse-ground edible part of various grains); porridge”), probably from Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos, “porridge made from flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”) (perhaps by extension from *pel- (“to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust”), in the sense of something beaten).

der

(uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.

groshë

annual leguminous plants yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; such a plant — see also legume


broom

en-noun

broom (countable and uncountable, plural brooms)

→ Chinook Jargon: bloom

Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink.
(shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

[…] and thy broom groves,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lass-lorn […]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.

Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.


earthnut

Inherited from Middle English erthenote, from Old English eorþhnutu, from Proto-Germanic *erþōhnuts; equivalent to earth + nut.

Bunium bulbocastanum
Bunium bulbocastanum#Translingual

Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground:

A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).

The underground tuber belonging to the genus Tuber.


lentil

From Middle English lentile, from Old French lentille from Latin lenticula, diminutive of lēns, from a pre-Indo-European substrate source shared by German Linse, Ancient Greek λάθυρος (láthuros) and Lithuanian lęšis. Doublet of lenticula.

Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris#Translingual

Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.


kidney bean

Wikispecies kidney bean (canonical)
kidney beans (plural)

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

A common bean of a cultivar of (Phaseolus vulgaris), with a dark-red skin.


pease

en-verb

pease (third-person singular simple present peases, present participle peasing, simple past and past participle peased)

peases (present singular third-person)
peasing (participle present)
peased (participle past)
peased (past)

From Anglo-Norman paiser, pesser et al., Old French paisier, aphetic form of apaisier (“to appease”). Probably also partly from aphetic use of appease.

(obsolete) To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.


lima bean

Named after the city of Lima, from which they were exported.

Phaseolus lunatus
Phaseolus lunatus#Translingual

A plant of species Phaseolus lunatus or the bean it yields.


vetch

From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.

Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.


chickpea

/ˈt͡ʃɪkˌpiː/

Calque of French pois chiche, from pois (“pea”) + chiche, from Latin cicer (“chickpea”).

Cicer arietinum
Cicer arietinum#Translingual

An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.


bean

→ Fiji Hindi: biin

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”),
Swedish böna (“bean”),
Danish bønne (“bean”), Norwegian bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A toe bean.


cowpea

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual

Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea.


kudzu

en-noun

kudzu (usually uncountable, plural kudzus)

From Japanese 葛(くず) (kuzu). The spelling kudzu (instead of kuzu) is due to historical transliteration methods of Japanese into English (compare adzuki).

By 2020, droughts and other extreme weather will be commonplace. By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe, and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle.

2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone:

Walled off communities, private jets, private security details are spreading like kudzu around the world.

2011 August 31, Ashley Dawson, “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor: An Interview with Rob Nixon”, in Social Text:

All the author’s familiar trademarks are here: […] shaggy-dog plotlines sprouting everywhere, like kudzu; […]

2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times:

Pueraria montana var. lobata#Translingual

Pueraria lobata
Pueraria lobata#Translingual

An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montana var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States.


legume

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Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.

(botany) Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).


soy

Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油／酱油 (jiàngyóu)obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu). Doublet of shoyu.

etymon

I like a little soy with my rice.

Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.

1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381:

A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.


furze

en-noun

furze (countable and uncountable, plural furzes)

From Middle English firse, furs, from Old English fyrs (“furze, gorse, bramble”), from Old English fyres (“furze”), related to Old English fȳr (“fire”); otherwise of unknown origin.

inh

Gonz. Now would I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground : Long heath, Browne firrs, any thing;[…]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:

At length, receiving his quarterly allowance of fifteen guineas, instead of discharging his debts he walk'd out of town, hid his gown in a furze bush, and footed it to London, […]

1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 158:

“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:

Clumps of withered grass stood out on the hill-top; the furze bushes were black, and now and then a black shiver crossed the snow as the wind drove flurries of frozen particles before it.

1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter VIII, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 97:

Ulex europaeus
Ulex europaeus#Translingual

A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.


bablah

en-noun

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.


garbanzo

/ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/

From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.

dbt

America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free[…]

1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33:

An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.


rosewood

en-noun

rosewood (countable and uncountable, plural rosewoods)

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A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour.

палисандр

any of many woods that resemble Dalbergia nigra

India rosewood

Dahlbergia latifolia, Acaccia melanoxylon, Dalbergia sissoo

The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.


soya bean

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ladino

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

From Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens#Translingual


sweet pea

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No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him who had not much to do, they required a great deal of sticking and tying.

1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162:

A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.


wallflower

A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.

1809, William Nicholson, “BOTANY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:

Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.

Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.

Mrs. Galbraith shook all over with laughter as she replied, "Hear that boy, asking me to dance ! I'm content to be a wallflower, now-a-days."

1878, Fannie Bean, Dr. Mortimer's Patient: A Novel, page 23:

And now, by virtue of his office, he is entitled to a seat in the Grand Lodge. Is it any wonder he is a wall-flower there […]

1885, The Freemason's Repository, page 133:

It is a triumph, of course, to have plenty of partners, and not to be a wallflower for a single dance.

1897, Mrs. C. E. Humphry, Manners for Women, page 53:

Jack Breen was a wallflower; still at the same time I noticed he was cultivating an ornamental smile — a Jack of Trumps, you bet.

She was a wallflower in a sleepy little town itself a wallflower. She was a joke to the village wits and a byword to the village belles.

"Where--oh. Hidden in the corner. You two aren't already going all wallflower, are you?" "We are not wallflowers." "To be fair, I can be. But then I get mad at myself for it and get all loud and snarky."

2013 May 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, May 22, 2013:

Second City was a wallflower at the show business ball. It needed to be. Improvisers needed to fail, and fail safely; and in the Midwest, far from Broadway and Hollywood, they really could. Second-class stature was the secret ingredient, ...

2017, Sam Wasson, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 94:

A person who does not dance at a party, due to shyness or unpopularity; by extension, anyone who is left on the sidelines while an activity takes place.

I've always been a wallflower, even in my own home. But, I'm willing to learn to be a part of your world. I would like to. I have already told my parents that I want to go to soirées.

2019, Liz Tyner, To Win a Wallflower, Harlequin, →ISBN:

(informal) Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.


wallflower

en-verb

wallflower (third-person singular simple present wallflowers, present participle wallflowering, simple past and past participle wallflowered)

wallflowers (present singular third-person)
wallflowering (participle present)
wallflowered (participle past)
wallflowered (past)

[…] the idea that a full tango experience is impossible without the presence of wallflowers and without the threat of wallflowering as the potential dancers enter the tango club.

2010, Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, page 237:

(intransitive) To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.


liquorice

en-noun

liquorice (countable and uncountable, plural liquorices)

From licorice by association with liquor.

UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.


cassia

cassia (countable and uncountable, plural cassias or cassiæ)

From Latin cassia (“cinnamon”), from Ancient Greek κασσία, κασία, κάσια (kassía, kasía, kásia), from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (qəṣīʿā), from Aramaic קְצִיעֲתָא (qəṣīʿătā), from קְצַע (qṣaʿ, “to cut off”). Compare Kezia.

der

κασσία, κασία, κάσια

Hebrew קְצִיעָה (qəṣīʿā)

Aramaic קְצִיעֲתָא (qəṣīʿătā)

(uncountable) The spice made from the bark of members of the genus Cinnamomum other than true cinnamon (C. verum), when they are distinguished from cinnamon.

The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]

1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 6:

Cinnamomum cassia
Cinnamomum cassia#Translingual

(countable) Such trees themselves, particularly the Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia.

(countable) Any of several tropical leguminous plants, of the genus Cassia.

(countable) Any of several tropical leguminous plants, of the genus Senna.

(countable, mistranslation from Chinese) The sweet osmanthus (O. fragrans).


licorice

en-noun

licorice (usually uncountable, plural licorices)

From Middle English lycorys, from Old French licoresse, from Late Latin liquiritia, alteration of Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza): γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) + ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) (English glucose, English rhizome). Doublet of glycyrrhiza.

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Glycyrrhiza glabra#Translingual

(countable) A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.


tamarind

tamarind (countable and uncountable, plural tamarinds)

From Late Middle English thamarynde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy, literally “Indian date”).

der

تَمْر هِنْدِيّ

Tamarindus indica
Tamarindus indica#Translingual

(botany) A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.

Garcinia gummi-gutta, Malabar tamarind, native to Indonesia.

Garcinia gummi-gutta
Garcinia gummi-gutta#Translingual

Other similar species:
A velvet tamarind (Dialium spp.).


fenugreek

en-noun

fenugreek (usually uncountable, plural fenugreeks)

/ˈfɛnjʊˌɡɹiːk/

/ˈfɛnjəˌɡɹiːk/

From Middle English fenygreke, fenegrek, from Old French fenugrec, fengrec, from Latin foenum-graecum, from foenum (“hay”, variant of faenum) + graecum (“Greek”, neuter form of graecus), literally “Greek hay”.

Fenugreek plant was introduced to Central Europe by Benedictine monks, and it is promoted in the 9th century by Charlemagne. It was grown extensively in the imperial gardens of Charlemagne (Popova, 2017).

2019, Muhammad Asif Hanif, Medicinal Plants of South Asia, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 260:

Trigonella foenum-graecum
Trigonella foenum-graecum#Translingual

Any of the species leguminous plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, eaten as a vegetable and with seeds used as a spice.


ordeal

From Middle English ordel, ordal, from Medieval Latin ordālium or inherited from its source Old English ordēl, ordāl (“ordeal, judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀdailī (“judgement”, literally “an out-dealing”), from *uʀdailijan (“to deal out; dispense”), equivalent to or- + deal.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Uurdeel (“judgement; verdict”), West Frisian oardiel (“judgement”), Dutch oordeel (“judgement, discretion”), Low German Oordeel (“judgement; verdict”), German Urteil (“judgement, verdict”).

cog

The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean


wilco

Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.

(radio communications) Indicates agreement and compliance.


royal poinciana

en-noun

royal poinciana (plural royal poincianas)

Delonix regia
Delonix regia#Translingual

A tropical tree, Delonix regia, grown for its bright red flower clusters; native to Madagascar but grown in many other tropical regions; the flamboyant.


wattle

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.


cocus

Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.


flamboyant

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery.

The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 45, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar.


groundnut

From ground + nut. Compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss and Hungarian földimogyoró.

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea#Translingual

A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).


mung

en-noun

mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)

From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

Vigna radiata
Vigna radiata#Translingual

mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.


red clover

red clover (countable and uncountable, plural red clovers)

Trifolium pratense
Trifolium pratense#Translingual

A clover (Trifolium pratense), with red flowers, found in Europe, Asia and North America.


koko

Albizia lebbeck
Albizia lebbeck#Translingual


astragalus

From Latin astragalus, from Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos), q.v. Doublet of astragal.

(botany) Synonym of milkvetch: a plant of the genus Astragalus.


brazil

I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.


black bean

black bean (countable and uncountable, plural black beans)

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

A dried black seed of certain varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).

A fermented soybean, used in Asian cooking.

An Australian tree of species Castanospermum australe.


haricot bean

(UK) A herbaceous plant from the Americas, Phaseolus vulgaris, the bean of which is eaten as both a green bean and dried, when it is cooked slowly as Boston baked beans.


shola

shola (countable and uncountable, plural sholas)

A wild plant found in Bengal and Assam, Aeschynomene aspera, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artefacts.


kowhai

Any of several small woody legume trees in the genus Sophora native to New Zealand that have yellow flowers. The national flower of New Zealand.


carob

carob (countable and uncountable, plural carobs)

Borrowed from Middle French carobe, from Arabic خَرُّوب (ḵarrūb), from Classical Syriac ܚܪܘܒܐ (ḥarrūḇā).

Ceratonia siliqua
Ceratonia siliqua#Translingual

An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.


green bean

The immature pods of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable.

The immature pods of numerous varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.

green bean galaxy
green bean galaxy#English


dragon's blood

For black magic, assafœtida, garlic, dragon's blood, sulphur, and such-like vile-smelling concoctions were used.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:

Another ancient vegetable relic surviving in Macaronesia is the legendary dragon tree, whose sap, marketed as dragon’s blood, was in past times much prized as a medicine, as incense and as a dye.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

A bright red resin, obtained from different species of a number of distinct plants Calamus rotang and genera Croton, Dracaena, Daemonorops, and Pterocarpus, used in the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, medicines, and incenses.


snow pea

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual

A group of pea (Pisum sativum) cultivars, with flat and edible pods.


runner bean

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual

A climbing plant of species Phaseolus coccineus, having long bean pods.

荷包豆

a climbing plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having long bean pods


soybean

A legume plant (Glycine max), commonly cultivated for human and animal consumption and as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover.


licorice root

licorice root (countable and uncountable, plural licorice roots)

Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.

Ligusticum canbyi (Canby's licorice root)


white clover

A species of clover, Trifolium repens, native to much of Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia and introduced elsewhere as a pasture crop.


phaseolus

any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas


pallisander

a dense, heavy wood, similar to teak or mahogany, mostly from species of Dalbergia and Pterocarpus, as well as Machaerium


alfalfa

alfalfa (countable and uncountable, plural alfalfas)

→ Irish: alfalfa

→ Welsh: alffalffa

PIE word
 *h₁éḱwos
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas
Proto-Iranian *Hácwah
Proto-Iranian *Hástiš
Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš
Old Median *aspāstišder.
Arabic فَصْفَص (faṣfaṣ)bor.
Old Spanish alfalfez
Spanish alfalfabor.
English alfalfa
From Spanish alfalfa, from Old Spanish alfalfez, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa, “alfalfa, lucerne”).

der

الْفَصْفَصَة

“No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”

1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, New York: Covici Friede, page 100:

Medicago sativa
Medicago sativa#Translingual

(uncountable) A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.

тхьэкӏищ лӏэужьыгъуэ

tḥɛkʼiś lˢʼɛwuźəğʷɛ


lupin

→ Thai: ลูพิน (luu-pin)

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From Middle English lupyne, lupine, from Old French lupin, from Latin lupīnus (“pertaining to the wolf”), because of the wolf-like “fang” within the blossom. It has also been linked to an assumed depletion of nutrients in the soil.

Lupins had been introduced into German agriculture in 1841 and had rapidly become a popular and useful feed for sheep as well as being used as a green manure plant for increasing soil fertility in poor-quality, sandy soils.

1991, R. F. Keeler, Handbook of Natural Toxins: Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 371:

Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.

лубін

any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae

Lupins contain less than 3% starch (Evans, 1994), the main fermentable carbohydrate involved in rumen acidosis when cereal grains are fed to ruminants. For this reason lupins have generally been regarded as a completely safe feed for sheep and cattle, and required no gradual introduction (Rowe, 1995).

1998, Tam Garland, A. Catherine Barr, Toxic Plants and Other Natural Toxicants, CABI, →ISBN, page 143:

Lupins, although a bean, are similar to olives aesthetically, and are equally good with breakfast. The trick is first to soak them overnight until rehydrated, then boil them for a few hours like any bean. They will not soften. Then soak them again, changing the water every day for several weeks until the bitterness is gone.

2010, Ken Albala, Rosanna Nafziger Henderson, The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time, Penguin, →ISBN:

A lupin bean, a yellow legume seed of a Lupinus plant (usually Lupinus luteus), used as feed for sheep and cattle and commonly eaten in the Mediterranean area and in Latin America although toxic if prepared improperly.


poinciana

Modern Latin: after M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the Antilles + -ana.

[I]n disturbed areas, like East Point, exotic trees like poinciana and "coffee bush" invade the edges.

1987, Hilary Thompson, Common Birds of the Darwin Area, Winnellie: Sandpiper Productions, page vii:

A tropical tree, of species Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.


trefoil

From Middle English trefoil, from Old French trifoil, trefeul, from Latin trifolium, from tri- (“three”) + folium (“leaf”).

Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.

"The pristine, unbroken condition of the vessel – sometimes called a trefoil jug – caused the entire dig to 'come to a halt,' Søvsø remarked."

2015 June 16, David DeMar, “Ancient Pitcher Discovered in Historic Danish City”, in New Historian:

A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.


butter bean

Any bean of certain species, including:
A wax bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)


string bean

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Any long, slender green bean.
A common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)

An immature runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus)

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis#Translingual

A yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)

Lablab purpureus
Lablab purpureus#Translingual

Any long, slender green bean.
A hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus)

Summer squashes almost in their golden blossom; cucumbers, now evincing a tendency to spread away from the main stock, and ramble far and wide; two or three rows of string-beans and as many more that were about to festoon themselves on poles;

1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:

Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell / And I leaned my head and I gave a yell / “Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man” / A shotgun fired and away I ran

1963, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:


leguminous

en-adj

leguminous (comparative more leguminous, superlative most leguminous)

more leguminous (comparative)
most leguminous (superlative)

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From Middle English leguminous, from Medieval Latin legūminōsus.

Of the Leguminosae family of peas, beans etc.


fava bean

An edible bean (Vicia faba) native to Africa and Southwest Asia with a long tradition of cultivation.


broad bean

The term 'bean' originally referred to the seed of the broad bean.

An edible bean that has broad seeds (Vicia faba).


pacay

A Peruvian leguminous tree, Inga feuilleei, cultivated for its large white edible pods.


mora

From New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.

1904, W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest:

(botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.


mesquite

Borrowed from Spanish mezquite, mizquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl (“mesquite tree”).

Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

[…] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species of the Lower Sonoran zone.

1909, Volney Morgan Spalding, Distribution and movements of desert plants:

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.


arariba

en-noun

arariba (countable and uncountable, plural araribas)

Borrowed from Portuguese araribá, from Old Tupi.

Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood.

Any of several trees of the genus Simira (syn. Sickingia), usually with heavy dark red wood.


rain tree

So called from the belief that it exudes water from its leaflets.

Albizia saman
Albizia saman#Translingual

A tropical American tree (Albizia saman) having bipinnate leaves, globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens, and sweet-pulp pods eaten by cattle, also used as an ornamental.

Golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)


copal

copal (countable and uncountable, plural copals)

From Spanish copal, from Classical Nahuatl copalli (“incense”).

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

A resinous exudation from various tropical trees, especially Hymenaea courbaril and Schinus terebinthifolia, used chiefly in making varnishes and printing ink.


frijol

Any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the black seed of a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris.


gorse

gorse (countable and uncountable, plural gorses)

From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”).
Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.

inh

The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers.


Dutch clover

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens#Translingual

Trifolium repens, an important fodder plant.


mimosa

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From New Latin mimosa, from Latin mimus (“mime, actor”), referring to Mimosa pudica and its habit of shrinking back when touched. The cocktail is named after the bright yellow, fragrant flowers of the mimosa Acacia dealbata.

Certain plants of the genus Albizia (silk tree, pink siris).


shamrock

→ Japanese: シャムロック

→ Korean: 섐록 (syaemnok)

From Irish seamróg, from Old Irish semróc, diminutive of semar, semair (“clover”), from Proto-Celtic *semarā, *semaris (compare Gaulish uisumaris (“clover”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *semh₁r-, *smeh₁r-. Related to Old Norse smári (“clover”) and possibly Georgian სამყურა (samq̇ura, “clover”).

She wore a shamrock in honor of her Irish ancestry.

The trefoil leaf of any small clover, especially Trifolium repens, or such a leaf from a clover-like plant, commonly used as a symbol of Ireland.


rooibos

Borrowed from Afrikaans rooibos, from Dutch rooi (“red”) + bosch (“bush”).

The crest of the rim and the upper portion of both the outer and inner slopes are covered with a fairly thick growth of Rooibosch (Combretum holosericeum), and Bastard Rooibosch (Combretum apiculatum), accompanied by Dichrostachys nutans, Grewia occidentales, and isolated examples of Marula (Sclerocarya caffra) and Tambootie (Exoecaria africana); […]

1922, W[ilfrid] J[ohn] Wybergh, The Coal Resources of Union of South Africa (Union of South Africa, Department of Mines and Industries, Geological Survey. Memoir; no. 19), volumes I (The Coalfields of Witbank, Springs, and Heidelberg and of the Orange Free State), Pretoria: Government Printing and Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 163:

Where the Hakdoorn (Acacia litakunensis Burch) and the Soetdoorn (Acacia Karoo) grow as the dominant trees we often find our sweetest pastures; and where Rooibos (Combretum holosericium and C. Zeyheri Sond), Sering (Burkea africana), wilde kweper (Androstachys Johnsonii), boekenhout (Faurea sagligna), and suikerbos (Protea abyssinica) grow, we more often have our poorest pastures of good value only in the early spring.

1932, A[ndrew] M[urray] Bosman, Cattle Farming in South Africa (South African Agricultural Series; 10), [Johannesburg]: Central News Agency, →OCLC, page 267:

Bush Willow (Rooibos) (Combretum apiculatum). Rooibos occurs in most parts of the ranching areas of the northern, north-western and north-eastern Transvaal.

1942, Farming in South Africa, volume 17, Pretoria: Department of Agricultural Technical Services and Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 234:

Thornveld (Acacia karroo) and Rooibos (Combretum apiculatum) veld.

1957, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, volume 54, Salisbury [Harare]: Minister of Agriculture & Land, →OCLC, page 414:

(South Africa) Various shrubs of the genus Combretum.


lotus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós). Doublet of lote. First attested in the 1540s

A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India.

Diospyros lotus
Diospyros lotus#Translingual

A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).

Diospyros lotus, date plum or Caucasian persimmon.

Lotus, a terrestrial genus with small flowers that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches.

Ziziphus lotus
Ziziphus lotus#Translingual

Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit.

Since the '60s ended abruptly on January 1, 1970, everyone, protestors, police and all, fell to the ground in a full lotus.

1979, Charlie King (lyrics and music), “Vaguely Reminiscent of the Sixties (The Story)”:


locoweed

en-noun

locoweed (countable and uncountable, plural locoweeds)

From Spanish loco (“mad, insane”) + weed.

Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.


inga

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese ingá, borrowed from Old Tupi ingá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.

etymon

Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.

1838, The British cyclopaedia, page 605:

Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

1989, “Lost crops of the Incas”, in U.S, National Research Council, page 279:

(botany) Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.


anil

en-noun

anil (countable and uncountable, plural anils)

→ Irish: anail

From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil.

(organic chemistry) 1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil.


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.


tolu

tolu (countable and uncountable, plural tolus)

From Spanish Tolú (“town in Colombia where the tree is found”), from tolúes (“name of a pre-Columbian people of the area”).

der

The resinous secretion of Myroxylon balsamum, used in cough syrups and perfumery.


locust bean gum

en-noun

locust bean gum (countable and uncountable, plural locust bean gums)

A vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob (locust beans) and used as a food additive; chemically, it is a galactomannan.


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.


guar gum

(chemistry) A heteropolysaccharide gum, extracted from the guar bean, that is used as a food additive.


laburnum

[…] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 1:

The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:


wisteria

wisteria (countable and uncountable, plural wisterias)

I know it's typical of me to keep secrets to find my way back again
Touch of conditional love
Reasons to keep me from binding the pathogen
Wisteria grows
I just want a clear view

2019, “Electric Cross”, performed by Spiritbox:

Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.

глици́ния

a genus of about ten species of woody climbing vines


jicama

From Mexican Spanish jícama, from Nahuatl xīcama.

The edible root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus, used in salads in Central America and as a snack in Mexico.


woundwort

woundwort (countable and uncountable, plural woundworts)

Berufskraut

any of several plants formerly used for wounds

Bellis perennis
Bellis perennis#Translingual

Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.


cannellini bean

cannellini bean (plural cannellini beans)


blackwood

blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)

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

Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia

Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India


black-eyed pea

لُوبِيَاء

cowpea bean, the produce of the aforementioned plant

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual

An African leguminous plant, of the species Vigna unguiculata, widely cultivated as food and forage, specifically Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata.

لُوبِيَاء

cowpea plant Vigna unguiculata or Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata


redbud

Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree.


carling

Alternative form of carline (“old woman”)


carling

Compare French carlingue, which may be from the English.

(nautical) A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.


carling

From care + -ling (synchronically), being connected to the custom of serving these peas to the poor on Care Sunday, called also Carling Sunday after the peas.

A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.


greenwood

greenwood (countable and uncountable, plural greenwoods)

From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasoned firewood”), equivalent to green + wood.

inh

Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]

1588, William Byrd, Giovanni Ferretti, composer, Musica Transalpina: Tenor. Madrigales Translated of Foure, Fiue and Sixe Partes, Chosen out of Diuers Excellent Authors, vvith the first and second part of La Verginella, Made by Maister Byrd, vpon Tvvo Stanza's of Ariosto, and Brought to Speake English vvith the Rest. Published by N. Yonge, in Fauour of such as Take Pleasure in Musicke of Voices, London: Imprinted at London [for Nicholas Yonge] by Thomas East, the assignè of William Byrd, →OCLC, number XXXIII:

Vnder the greene wood tree, / Who loues to lye with mee, / And turne his merrie Note, / Vnto the ſweet Birds throte: / Come hither, come hither, come hither: / Heere ſhall he ſee no enemie, / But Winter and rough Weather.

1599, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene v, page 192:

But Calipine, now being left alone / Under the greenewood’s ſide in ſorie plight, / Withouten armes or ſteede to ride upon, / Or houſe to hide his head from heaven’s ſpight, […]

1751, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. [...], London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, →OCLC, book VI, canto IV, stanza XXXIX, page 270:

We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.

1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance [...] In Three Volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90, Cheapside, London:

The good green-wood! the good green-wood! / Where early violets spring, / Where 'mid the old oak's giant boughs / The merle and mavis sing, […] My dreams are of sweet music wild / Beneath the green-wood tree!

1842, “The Green-wood”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XI, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 605:

Warwickshire is, indeed, a county of Gospel Oaks, and many of these, like the others, are huge in growth and venerable in years. They formed the boundary lines or marks between adjoining parishes, and when the bounds were beaten the parson was wont to deliver his homily beneath the shady boughs. From this circumstance the trees have taken the name of “Gospel Oaks,” and though Time has somewhat thinned their number, there are many still existing, dotted about in various parts of this sequestered greenwood.

1900, George Morley, “Gospel Oaks”, in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country: The Language; the Superstitions; the Customs; the Folk-lore; the Birds & Trees; the Parson; the Poets; the Novelist, London: David Nutt, →OCLC, page 206:

In a number of families, brothers joined opposite sides. Some fought on the communist side as guerrillas and assassinated their blood brothers who held jobs on village committees. Others who served the village militias shot and killed their siblings who came back from secret guerrilla bases in the greenwoods.

2012, Nguyễn Công Luận, Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 185:

When they were young, he kissed her in the greenwood. When she brushes her fingers across her lips, she still remembers.

2014, Mari Ness, In the Greenwood, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:


fava

Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.

1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.

When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.

2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153:

Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.

2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip, →ISBN, page 197:

In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.

2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268:

A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.


bloodwood

en-noun

bloodwood (countable and uncountable, plural bloodwoods)

woody-fruited bloodwood, genus Corymbia (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Corymbia)

paper-fruited bloodwood, Corymbia subg. Blakella (formerly Eucalyptus subg. Blakella)

Brosimum paraense, a tree found in Central and South America.

Any of several trees from the genus Pterocarpus, of the African and Asian tropics.


zaman

On shore, the mule's pinkish ears revolved lazily in the shade of the zaman tree.

1995, Madison Smartt Bell, All souls' rising, page 327:

Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family.


myall

(Australia) An Aboriginal person living according to tradition.


myall

en-adj

myall (comparative more myall, superlative most myall)

more myall (comparative)
most myall (superlative)

It was some kind of gadget that can take away all your myall words, transcribe what you say in better language so people can understand what you are talking about.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 99:

(Australia) According to Aboriginal tradition; traditionally indigenous.


myall

en-noun

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


narra

The narra grows in Luzon, Mindanao, Panay and Samar.

1906 August 2, Miss Lilian O'Connell, “With Pan in the Forests of Luzon”, in The New York Observer, volume 84:

Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus#Translingual

Any of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus of trees in the family Fabaceae, but especially Pterocarpus indicus.


masoor dal

From Hindi मसूर दाल (masūr dāl); see masoor + dal.


pigeon pea

A tropical African plant, Cajanus cajan, formerly Cajanus indicus.


greenweed

Any of several plants, of the genus Genista, related to broom


wax bean

Any of several forms of Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean) having a yellow or other-coloured pod; the butter bean


locust bean

A seed of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).


mescal bean

A genus (Dermatophyllum, syn Calia) of shrubs or small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to southwestern North America from western Texas to New Mexico and Arizona in the United States, and south through Chihuahua, Coahuila and Nuevo León in northern Mexico.


azuki bean

The Chinese characters for azuki bean [Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi], 小豆, means^([sic]) “small bean,” while the kanji characters for soybean, 大豆, mean “big bean.” These characters also reflect the relative importance of these two crops in East Asia, where they are the main legumes in people's diets.

2005 March 16, chapter 11, in Ram J. Singh, Prem P. Jauhar, editors, Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Grain Legumes, CRC Press, →ISBN:

Vigna angularis
Vigna angularis#Translingual

An annual vine (Vigna angularis), widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalayas for its small bean.


false acacia

The taproots of trees like the false acacia, growing between Park Royal and Alperton, thrust deeply into the ground, while the spreading roots of the silver birch stitch the soil.

1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):

Robinia pseudoacacia
Robinia pseudoacacia#Translingual

A deciduous tree, of species Robinia pseudoacacia, native to the United States; the black locust.


senna

senna (countable and uncountable, plural sennas)

(countable) Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative.

(uncountable) The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally.


winged bean

A tropical legume of species Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, having clusters of purple flowers and pods with four jagged wings


flageolet

(music) A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.


blue bonnet

Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea cyanus#Translingual

Any of several blue flowering plants, especially cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and plants of the genus Scabiosa.

ruiskaunokki

blue flower, Centaurea cyanus or plant of the genus Scabiosa


kingwood

kingwood (countable and uncountable, plural kingwoods)

Dalbergia cearensis, a Brazilian tree having a violet-brown, hard texture.


purpleheart

purpleheart (countable and uncountable, plural purplehearts)

(countable) A large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies

pau-violeta

a large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies


touch-me-not

touch-me-not (countable and uncountable, plural touch-me-nots)

Mimosa pudica
Mimosa pudica#Translingual

Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.


golden shower

Two elderly women sat knitting on that part of the veranda which was screened from the sun by a golden shower creeper […]

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 7:

Cassia fistula
Cassia fistula#Translingual


common bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

An herbaceous annual plant (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its edible bean.


haricot

From French haricot, from Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to tear up, shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”), Old English herġian (“to lay waste, ravage, plunder”). More at harry.

cog

/ˈhæɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/

/ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/

/ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.koʊ/


whin

en-noun

whin (countable and uncountable, plural whins)

From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inquīnō (“to sully; soil”).

inh

Genista tinctoria
Genista tinctoria#Translingual

The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).


horseflesh

Bahama mahogany, wood from species Lysiloma sabicu and Lysiloma latisiliquum.


jequirity bean

Abrus precatorius
Abrus precatorius#Translingual

A poisonous bean, produced by the jequirity plant (Abrus precatorius) and used for making jewelry and percussion instruments.


sugar pea

(US) A vegetable pea eaten when immature, mangetout.


mangetout

en-noun

mangetout (countable and uncountable, plural mangetouts)

Borrowed from French mangetout, from mange (“eat”) + tout (“all”), since even the pod is edible.

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual

A vegetable pea (Pisum sativum) eaten when immature.

sokeriherne

vegetable pea eaten when immature — see also snow pea


sanders

From Middle English saundres (“sandalwood”), from Old French sandre, from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /čandal/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”).

der

(obsolete) sandalwood, especially the red sandalwood


masu

A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.


masu

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

bor

masu-seki

possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.


Judas tree

From a European folk belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on a tree of this species (the account in the Christian scriptures says he hanged himself, but gives no details).

The Spaniards and Portuguese title the siliquastrum the lovely tree, or tree of love; and we call it Judas tree, from a tradition, that it was the tree Judas hanged himself upon.

1762 June, “The compendious System of Natural History”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, volume 30, page 297:

[…] children, drawing water,
Looked up and paused to see,
Amid the apple branches,
A purple Judas tree.

1858, Adelaide Anne Procter, “The Wayside Inn”, in Legends and Lyrics, New York: D. Appleton, page 119:

[The garden] is a tangle of briars and grey sage, and here and there a judas tree in full flower stains the whiteness of the tall planes with its incredible magenta.

1926, Vita Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, Chapter V, II:

Cercis siliquastrum
Cercis siliquastrum#Translingual

A small deciduous tree, Cercis siliquastrum, noted for its prolific display of deep-pink flowers in spring.


honey locust

Gleditsia triacanthos
Gleditsia triacanthos#Translingual

A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.

thornless honey locust

subspecies, varieties, forms of Gleditsia triacanthos


zebrawood

en-noun

zebrawood (countable and uncountable, plural zebrawoods)

Any wood with a figure (grain pattern) like the striping of a zebra, most often wood of the genus Microberlinia.


Jupiter's beard

A common name for various plants:
The red valerian, Centranthus ruber

Centranthus ruber
Centranthus ruber#Translingual

(obsolete) Aster linosyris, a European plant with yellow flowers.

The silverbush, Anthyllis barba-jovis, a European shrub with silvery leaves.

1658: Thus […] nature […] somewhat after this manner hath ordered the bush in Jupiters''' beard, or houseleek; which old superstition set on the tops of houses, as a defensative against lightening, and thunder. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 181)

The common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum.

Sempervivum tectorum
Sempervivum tectorum#Translingual

A white-edged fungus, Hyphodontia barba-jovis.


tipu

A tipu tree serves as an umbrella, while an Indonesian door on the wall carries the ethnic motif and an iron table and chairs keep it modern.

2003 October, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 10, page 54:

A South American tree, Tipuana tipu, which is grown as an ornamental in mild-winter climates.


pinto bean

From Spanish pinto (“painted”), named for its mottled skin.

(US, usually in the plural) Any bean of several varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common in the US and Mexico.


immortelle

The land between the road and the gully widened; the gully grew shallower. Beyond it Mr Biswas saw the tall immortelles and their red and yellow flowers. And then the untrodden road blazed with the flowers.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3:

Any of various trees of the genus Erythrina.


ebene

A psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or of Anadenanthera peregrina, used ritually as snuff by the Yanomamo people of South America.


moneywort

Moneywort is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether they be lasks, bloody fluxes, the flowing of women's courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the stomach that is given to casting.

1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 193:

Lysimachia nummularia
Lysimachia nummularia#Translingual

creeping Jenny, creeping Charlie, herb twopence

A prostrate perennial of species, Lysimachia nummularia, native to Europe, having yellow flowers.

Any plant of genus Alysicarpus, of Old World tropics and subtropics.

coastal waterhyssop, Indian pennywort (Bacopa monnieri).


medick

medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”); so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.


matki

(India) The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.


French bean

A haricot bean or kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).


coronilla

/ˌkɔɹəˈnɪlə/

(botany) Any of the genus Coronilla of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.


petit pois

Borrowed from French petit pois (literally “little pea”).


mukula

Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.

(Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix


opopanax

en-noun

opopanax (countable and uncountable, plural opopanaxes)

Borrowed from Latin opopanax, from Hellenistic Greek ὀποπάναξ (opopánax), from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”) + πάναξ (pánax, “any of several plants believed to have medicinal benefits”).

der

(obsolete) A gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium, formerly used in medicine.

جَاوَشِير

gum from the root of Opopanax chironium or what is equal


jacaranda

From Portuguese jacarandá, from Old Tupi îacaranda.

They passed slowly under the jacaranda trees beginning to bloom lavender over their heads.

2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 147:

Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.

A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.


solah

en-noun

solah (countable and uncountable, plural solahs)

he descended in a new khaki suit—tight fitting—of a delicate olive-green; a peacock-blue tie, white collar, and a snowy white solah helmet.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 93:

Alternative form of shola (“the plant Aeschynomene aspera”)


horse bean

So called because of use in feeding horses.


tornillo

Borrowed from Spanish tornillo (“screw”).

bor+

A small tree, Prosopis pubescens, native to Mexico and parts of the United States that has spirally twisted pods; the screwbean


mopane

A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.

mopanie

Colophospermum mopanea, a tree of southern Africa


catechu

en-noun

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


desi

There are two types of chickpea, desi (small seeded, angular and coloured) and kabuli (large seeded, ram-shaped and beige coloured). No precise information is available about the division of the 11 million hectares under chickpea between desis and kabulis, but an approximation is that more than 85 per cent of the area is covered with the desis type and the rest with kabuli.

1984, J.R. Witcombe, Genetic Resources and Their Exploitation:

These lighter coloured desis are now generally favoured by most markets as they look fresher, despite the majority of desis still ending up dehulled.

2007, Shyam S. Yadav, Chickpea Breeding and Management, page 568:

A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.


sainfoin

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143

A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).


snap bean

Their Sunday dinner always included snap beans cooked with fatback.

The unripe or green edible fruit pod of a bean plant such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.


red bean

red bean (countable and uncountable, plural red beans)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-red bean.wav

(countable) The azuki bean (Vigna angularis), most common in East Asia.

Vigna umbellata
Vigna umbellata#Translingual

(countable) The rice bean (Vigna umbellata).

(countable) Any of various red varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean.

China’s dragon-boat festival ensures fishermen’s safety through consumption of meat, lotus seed (Nelumbo spp., Nelumbonaceae), date, water chestnut (Trapa spp., Trapaceae), and zongzi, which are glutinous-rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves (Poaceae) and filled with red bean (Luard 2001).

2009, Nina Lilian Etkin, Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 135:

Freshly made red bean treats hot from the griddle are popular here: crispy-hot snapper-shaped taiyaki cakes filled with red bean; dorayaki (red bean sandwiched between two hand-held, pancake-esque cakes); the famous ningyōyaki (doll-shaped bite-sized red bean cakes traditional to the old neighbourhood Asakusa).

2018, Eat Like a Local TOKYO, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

Griselda returns, holding a bag full of wasabi peas and anpans. She knows I like the ones filled with custard rather than red bean, so I’m grateful she got my favorites.

2018, Peter Tieryas, Mecha Samurai Empire, New York, N.Y.: Ace, →ISBN:

In the book, the protagonist is a Korean American girl, and a lot of her favorite things—from her love of walnut cakes filled with red bean to the Korean drama Boys Over Flowers—were my favorite things growing up as well.

2020, Erin Yun, Pippa Park Raises Her Game, New York, N.Y.: Fabled Films LLC, published 2021, →ISBN:

Buns filled with sweet custard, buns filled with red bean, savory buns with spinach and minced meat, sticky rice and pork belly wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with string.

2022, Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 2023, →ISBN, page 164:

Manju originated from Chinese mantou, that deep fried bread thing you dip in condensed milk that you can get in Binondo. But this is Japanese. And the Japanese version is made with red bean instead of chocolate or custard.

2022, Carla de Guzman, Some Bali to Love, Midnight Books:

(uncountable) A paste made of azuki beans.


kajatenhout

(South Africa) The tree Pterocarpus angolensis (bloodwood).


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).


Kentucky coffeetree

en-noun

Kentucky coffeetree (plural Kentucky coffeetrees)

A widely-dispersed, but rare, tree, Gymnocladus dioicus, native to the midwest of North America.


retama

(botany) Any of the genus Retama of flowering bushes.


yarran

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


papilionaceous

en-adj

papilionaceous (comparative more papilionaceous, superlative most papilionaceous)

more papilionaceous (comparative)
most papilionaceous (superlative)

From New Latin papilionaceus (from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”)) + -ous. In scientific sense, after Papilionaceae (family name).

[T]he broad road is lined with wild bushes and tangled shrubs lavishly decked with brilliant blossoms: the lentisk, so covered with yellow, papilionaceous flowers [translating Schmetterlingsblumen] that not a green leaf is visible…

1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 261:

(botany) Having a corolla in the form of a butterfly, with prominent wing-like petals; (generally) pertaining to the Faboidea (Papilionoidea) family of plants.


lespedeza

(botany) Any of many leguminous plants of the genus Lespedeza, including bush clover.


brazilwood

en-noun

brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)

A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.


logwood

logwood (countable and uncountable, plural logwoods)

Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.


French honeysuckle

French honeysuckle (countable and uncountable, plural French honeysuckles)

A perennial herb, Hedysarum coronarium, native to Northern Africa and Spain.


four-leaf clover

four-leaf clover (plural four-leaf clovers)

An uncommon variation of the clover, having four leaves instead of the usual three.


navy bean

So called because the United States Navy has served the beans as a staple to its sailors since the mid-1800s.

Beans—Very scarce Navy Beans 112 a 115c.

1851 May 10, “The Markets”, in North Carolina Standard, volume 1, no. 53, Raleigh, N.C., archived from the original on 2016-09-25, page 3:

Janie […] baked big pans of navy beans with plenty of sugar and hunks of bacon laying on top.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 132:

A white bean of a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).


milkvetch

Any member of most species of flowering plants of the genus Astragalus.

قَتَاد

Astragalus — see also tragacanth, locoweed


snakewood

snakewood (usually uncountable, plural snakewoods)

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


zitan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 紫檀 (zǐtán).

Wood of a red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus).


baptisia

“We’re really excited about the new baptisias out of Chicago Botanic Garden,” said Steven Castorani, a co-owner of North Creek Nurseries, which specializes in native plants, in Landenberg, Pa.

2008 January 24, Anne Raver, “What the Nurseries Like for Spring”, in New York Times:

(horticulture) Any of various ornamental plants of the genus Baptisia


wenge

Mr. Faraday rattled off the options: Atlantic Luxe (white Carrara marble, African wenge floors, white Pedini cabinets); Harbor Chic (silver cabinets, white-oak flooring and “Portuguese limestone,” Mr. Faraday whispered, running his hand over the counter surface); and Hudson Mod (“the most traditional, with eggshell quartz counters, exotic wood cabinets and American chestnut flooring.”)

2008 March 30, Suzanne Slesin, “Taking in the River View From Both Banks”, in New York Times:

A very dark and hard tropical timber, from the tree species Millettia laurentii.


retem

Ultimately from a Semitic language. Compare Arabic رَتَم (ratam), Biblical Hebrew רותם

A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.


huanghuali

His proudest offering is a matched pair of 17th-century huanghuali tapered cabinets formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, Calif.

2008 March 14, Wendy Moonan, “Rare Works by Eminent Britons”, in New York Times:

Dalbergia odorifera
Dalbergia odorifera#Translingual

The Chinese tree Dalbergia odorifera, or the wood of this tree, which is often used in Chinese woodworking.


prairie clover

prairie clover (countable and uncountable, plural prairie clovers)


black locust

A tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States, but widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia; considered an invasive species in some areas.


goober

Conscripts by the dozen...
Come pouring in the Castle...
Some from Mississippi state and “Goobers” from Tar river.

1863, anonymous author, “Castle Thunder”, in Louis Napoléon Boudrye, editor, Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry..., Appendix, page 339:

The peanuts or earth-nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods’ of that State was apt to be nick-named a Goober.

1871, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Americanisms, page 57:

(chiefly Southern US, dated slang) A Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly one from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.


yopo

A perennial South American tree, Anadenanthera peregrina, that has a number of traditional uses.


yardlong bean

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis#Translingual

A vigorous climbing annual vine (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods with uses very similar to that of a green bean.


timbo

Among the handsomest trees which I have met is the "Timbo" (Enterolobium timbosa), which grows sometimes to the height of [...]. Half a dozen other species of Enterolobium, all inferior to the Timbo, grow in the Paraguayan forests.

1889, John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur, Botanical Gazette, page 226:

The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is Enterolobium contortisiliquum.

1894, New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, section on Plants Collected in Paraguay, page 216

At a short distance from the banks of the river Paraguay commences the forest exhibiting its red and white quebrachos, carob-trees, timbos, etcetera. The soil is very rich and in the clearings there are excellent pastures' ...

1916, Alberto B. Martínez, Baedeker of the Argentine Republic:

(possibly obsolete) The pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.


coral vine

(Australia) Kennedia coccinea, a species of flowering plant, native to western Australia, with red or scarlet flowers.


dhaincha

The main material is dhaincha, a weed commonly grown in India to restore nitrogen to depleted soils.

2007 January 9, Keith Bradsher, “Paying in Pollution for Energy Hunger”, in New York Times:

The legume Sesbania bispinosa, native to Asia and North Africa.


tara gum

tara gum (usually uncountable, plural tara gums)

A white or beige nearly odorless powder used as a thickening agent and stabilizer for food, produced by separating and grinding the endosperm of Tara spinosa seeds.


jequirity

From French jéquirity, from Spanish jequirití, from Tupi-Guarani.

Abrus precatorius, a legume native to Indonesia with long, pinnate-leafleted leaves, whose toxic seeds ("jequirity bean") may be used as beads or in percussion instruments.

A Work in Progress. School of Agriculture and Food Systems. Faculty of Land & Food Resources. The University of Melbourne. Australia.

Sorting Abrus Names. Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database


guar

From Hindi ग्वार (gvār), from Sanskrit गोपाली (gopālī, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from गोपालकर्कटी (gopālakarkaṭī, “cowherder's cucumber”), from गोपाल (gopāla, “cowherd”) + कर्कटी (karkaṭī, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).

der

An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.


vetchling

From vetch (“leguminous plant of genus Vicia”) + -ling.

suffix

A leguminous climbing plant, notably:
any other member of genus Lathyrus.


palas

The Dhak or Palas is a familiar wild tree and is common throughout the greater part of India except in drier parts.

2005, Bhojraj Dwivedi, Environmental Vaastu, page 162:

The tea garden lay in the foothills of Bhutan and got its name from the many palash trees that stood tall among the undulating green sea of tea bushes.

2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

Butea monosperma
Butea monosperma#Translingual

A tree of eastern India and Burma, Butea monosperma.


msasa

From a big msasa tree that shaded the veranda a pigeon was cooing regularly.

1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 285:

A tree of Southern Africa, Brachystegia spiciformis.


flame tree

flame + tree, from the fiery colour of the flowers.

Any tree or shrub with yellow or bright red flowers from several species including:

Delonix regia (royal poinciana), native to Madagascar

Delonix regia
Delonix regia#Translingual

Erythrina spp. (coral trees), of most tropical and subtropical regions


green gram

en-noun

green gram (usually uncountable, plural green grams)

Vigna radiata
Vigna radiata#Translingual

A bean from the seed of Vigna radiata, which is native to Bangladesh and India.


corkscrew flower

corkscrew flower (plural corkscrew flowers)

A plant of the species Cochliasanthus caracalla, often used as an ornamental


tonka bean

Like when she and Seema [...] climb the tonka bean tree.

2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 155:

Dipteryx odorata
Dipteryx odorata#Translingual

A black wrinkled seed of a neotropical legume tree of species Dipteryx odorata, used as a perfume and vanilla substitute due to its high coumarin content.


sicklepod

Senna obtusifolia, a legume used in folk medicine.


Burmese rosewood

Burmese rosewood (usually uncountable, plural Burmese rosewoods)

Dalbergia oliveri, a southeast Asian tree and its wood, valuable for its red lumber used in ornamental work including woodturning and furniture. The sapwood is yellowish-white with dark brown heartwood. The heartwood is very hard and heavy.

Any of species Dalbergia bariensis of similar trees.

Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus#Translingual

Any of species Pterocarpus indicus of similar trees.


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.


palo verde

Borrowed from Spanish palo verde (“green stick”).

(US) Any of a variety of trees in the genus Parkinsonia, with characteristic green bark, found in desert areas of North America.

turco

any of a variety of trees in the genus Parkinsonia


coral tree

Any of the trees of the genus Erythrina, of most tropical and subtropical regions.


derris

From New Latin and translingual Derris, from Ancient Greek δέρρις (dérrhis, “leather, skin”), referring to the leathery pods, from δέρω (dérō, “I skin, I flay”).

der

A climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific Islands, Derris elliptica, whose roots are a source of rotenone.


desmodium

Any member of the genus Desmodium of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, containing mostly inconspicuous legumes but some with bright or large flowers.


copaiba

en-noun

copaiba (countable and uncountable, plural copaibas)

/ˌkəʊpaɪˈiːbə/

Borrowed from Portuguese copaíba, borrowed from Old Tupi kopa'yba, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kopaʔɨβ + Old Tupi -a.

etymon

Any of several South American trees of the genus Copaifera


mung bean

The seed of Vigna radiata, native to South Asia.


dhak

Butea monosperma, a tree of southern Asia.


wait-a-bit

Any of certain plants with sharp hooked thorns found in southern and eastern Africa.

(South Africa) One of numerous acacias and mimosas and relatives.

Biancaea decapetala (syn. Caesalpinia decapetala, Mauritius thorn, Mysore thorn)

Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn, Cape thorn)

The grapple plant (Uncarina leptocarpa).


wait-a-bit

From the delay caused by the recurved thorns.

Certain thorny shrubs and trees of North America

The common prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum).

The greenbrier (Smilax spp., esp. Smilax rotundifolia)

Any of various species of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli, etc.).

Mimosa aculeaticarpa (catclaw mimosa, wait-a-minute bush), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.

Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia), of southwestern US and northern Mexico.


avaram

From Kannada ಆವರಿಕೆ (āvarike), Tamil ஆவாரை (āvārai), or a related form.

A leguminous shrub with smooth cinnamon brown bark (Senna auriculata) from Southern Asia.


divi-divi

dividivi

Caesalpinia coriaria, a leguminous tree of the Caribbean region

Caesalpinia coriaria
Caesalpinia coriaria#Translingual

Caesalpinia coriaria, a leguminous tree of the southern Western Hemisphere

Prior to the war divi-divi was exported to Hamburg almost exclusively; in the past few years, however, it has found a ready market in New York.

1919, “Abstracts”, in Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, volume 14, page 583:

The seed-pods of Caesalpinia coriaria, formerly used in tanning


chickling

Lathyrus sativus
Lathyrus sativus#Translingual

The leguminous plant Lathyrus sativus as well as other Lathyrus species.


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.


masoor

(India, cooking) Small orange-red lentils.


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.


amboyna

en-noun

amboyna (countable and uncountable, plural amboynas)

A south-east Asian tree, Pterocarpus indicus.


cowage

Mucuna pruriens
Mucuna pruriens#Translingual

A leguminous climbing plant, Mucuna pruriens, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.


redbush

Calque of Afrikaans rooibos, red + bush.

Sitting in her ocher-walled office with its tin roof and itinerant chickens, Mma Ramotswe sips redbush tea and ponders the ethics of her cases: the wife who wants the detective to steal back the car her husband has stolen; the grief-stricken mother who, with Mma Ramotswe's deft application of a little blackmail, might be reunited with a young grandson.

2002 January 27, Alida Becker, “Miss Marple of Botswana”, in The New York Times:

I'm thinking I'm in for a sermon on decaffeinated redbush, or the antioxidant properties of organic camomile.

2014, Paula Daly, Keep Your Friends Close:

Herbal teas: redbush, rosehip tea, peppermint etc.

2015, Sarah Myhill, Sustainable Medicine: whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice:


afrormosia

afrormosia (countable and uncountable, plural afrormosias)

(countable) Any of the African leguminous trees of the genus Pericopsis (formerly Afrormosia), especially Pericopsis elata


marrowfat

Peas are scarce; good marrowfats are in better demand.

1842, Charles Mason Hovey, Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 319:

A large variety of pea that is often processed and sold in tins/cans.


yellow locust

Robinia pseudoacacia
Robinia pseudoacacia#Translingual

(rare) black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)


camwood

camwood (countable and uncountable, plural camwoods)

An African hardwood tree, Baphia nitida, that is a form of sandalwood.


urad

Borrowed from Hindi उड़द (uṛad), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *uẓuntu

(botany, India cooking) Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.


catjang

catjang (countable and uncountable, plural catjangs)

Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) and occasionally catjangs or cow peas (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) are grown along the Wahgi Valley (HIDE 1979:14).

1991, A. O. Latunde-Dada, Genetic Manipulation of the Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) for Enhanced Resistance ro Fungal Pathogens and Insect Pests, Nyle C. Brady (editor), Advances in Agronomy, Volume 44, page 134,
The Indian cultigroups of V. unguiculata ssp. unguiculata, namely, Biflora (the catjang bean) and Sesquipedalis (the yardlong or asparagus bean), arose probably by selection from the early cowpea domesticates (Faris, 1965).

2012, Tong Kwee Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants, Volume 2: Fruits, page 968,
Catjang bean is considered to have developed in India from cowpea (cultigroup Unguiculata) which originated in West Africa (Ng and Marechal 1985). Catjang is widely cultivated in India, China, Kampuchea, Japan, Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Africa and America.

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual

A cowpea native to Africa, Vigna unguiculata, sometimes Vigna unguiculata subsp. cylindrica, a densely-branched shrubby perennial grown for animal fodder or food.


guaje

Borrowed from Spanish guaje, from Classical Nahuatl huāxin.


chana

chana (usually uncountable, plural chanas)


yellowwood

yellowwood (countable and uncountable, plural yellowwoods)


kidney vetch

Anthyllis vulneraria, a medical plant in the pea family.

woundwort

used for not closely related flowers in the mint family


robinia

The remarkable feature of the woody planting at Buttes-Chaumont is the ‘profuse use’ of silver-leafed cedars, yellow-leafed robinias and copper-leafed beech trees.

2001, Alan Tate, “Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris”, in Great City Parks, London, New York, N.Y.: Spon Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 54, columns 1–2:

(botany) Any member of the genus Robinia.


sophora

Then Dr. Day allowed herself to become distracted by a tree on the other side of 83rd Street, a sophora tree.

2007 October 28, Ellen Pall, “Meet the Neighbors”, in New York Times:

Any of the genus Sophora of small trees and shrubs related to the pea.