Definition of Coumarouna

1. Noun. Tropical American trees: tonka beans.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Coumarouna

Coulomb blockade
Coulomb blockades
Coulomb collision
Coulomb energies
Coulomb energy
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb explosions
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
Coulson
Coulter counter
Coulterism
Coulterisms
Coumadin
Coumarouna (current term)
Coumarouna odorata
Coumel's tachycardia
Council Bluffs
Council of Chalcedon
Council of Economic Advisors
Council of Trent
Council on Environmental Policy
Councilman's lesion
Councilman body
Councilmania
Counsel to the Crown
Count Alessandro Volta
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro
Count Branicki's mice

Literary usage of Coumarouna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"... from the tonka bean, together with a corresponding proportion of the other soluble matters thereof. Tonka bean is the seed of Coumarouna odorata Aublet ..."

2. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"The ripe seeds of Coumarouna odorata and C. oppositifolia (Fam. Leguminosae, sub-fam. Papilionaceae), trees growing in tropical South America. ..."

3. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy for Students of Pharmacy, and by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"There are two principal varieties: (1) Dutch Tonka obtained from Coumarouna odorata. growing in the northern part of the Amazon region, and (2) English ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... obtained from the Dipteryx (Coumarouna) odora la or Tonka bean, and also occurring in melilot and some other plants, to which it gives its ..."

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