Definition of Tamarinds

1. Noun. (plural of tamarind) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tamarinds

1. tamarind [n] - See also: tamarind

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamarinds

tamaracks
tamarao
tamaraos
tamaras
tamarau
tamaraus
tamaraw
tamari
tamaric
tamarillo
tamarillos
tamarin
tamarind
tamarind tree
tamarindo
tamarinds (current term)
tamarins
tamaris
tamarisk
tamarisk family
tamarisk gerbil
tamarisks
tamarugite
tamasha
tamashas
tambac
tambacs
tambak
tambaks
tambala

Literary usage of Tamarinds

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

1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. ... I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds—but they only eat them ..."

2. Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and by Peter Lund Simmonds (1889)
"Twenty years ago England used to receive 4000000 Ibs. of tamarinds. In preserving tamarinds, in order that they may keep well without fermentation, ..."

3. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"Between the stems of the delicate- leaved tamarinds, glimpses are caught of gateways and pillared houses; ..."

4. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"Before being exported, tamarinds always undergo some preparation, which varies, ... The pulp of West Indian tamarinds is alone official in the British ..."

5. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha by Gaetano Casati (1891)
"... animals—Vegetable produce - Grain —Vegetable oils—Gums and resins—tamarinds —Sugar. canes — Cotton — Tobacco — Coffee — Nutmegs — Iron—July 11, 1882, ..."

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