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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle;
[syn: rain tree, saman, monkeypod, monkey pod, zaman, zamang, Albizia saman]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Zamang \Za*mang"\, n. (Bot.) An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree. --J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rain tree n 1: large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle [syn: rain tree, saman, monkeypod, monkey pod, zaman, zamang, Albizia saman]