long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp • Syn: tamarind, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica • Hypernyms: bean tree • Member Holonyms: Tamarindus, genus Tamarindus • Part Meronyms: tamarind, tamarindo