Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree of the mimosa family, Inga laurina, extensively used in the West Indies and in Venezuela and Colombia as a coffee shade-tree. It bears broad, bean-like pods, with an edible, sweet, fluffy pulp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tropical tree of Central America and the West Indies and Puerto Rico (
Inga laurina ) having spikes of white flowers; it is used as shade for coffee plantations.
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- noun tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations
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Examples
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The guama, a big strong tree of dense foliage, is used for a wind-break on the ridges; and the guava, for shade in the plantation.
All About Coffee 1909
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On the strand of Cumana, in the garden of the Guayqueria pilot, we saw for the first time a guama* loaded with flowers, and remarkable for the extreme length and silvery splendour of its numerous stamina.
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Cumana, in the garden of the Guayqueria pilot, we saw for the first time a guama* loaded with flowers, and remarkable for the extreme length and silvery splendour of its numerous stamina.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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(Dioscorea alata), copei (Clusia alba), guayacan (Guaiacum officinale), guajaba (Psidium pyriferum), guanavano (Anona muricata), mani (Arachis hypogaea), guama (Inga), henequen (was supposed from the erroneous accounts of the first travellers to be an herb with which the Haitians used to cut metals; it means now every kind of strong thread), hicaco
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(Dioscorea alata), copei (Clusia alba), guayacan (Guaiacum officinale), guajaba (Psidium pyriferum), guanavano (Anona muricata), mani (Arachis hypogaea), guama (Inga), henequen (was supposed from the erroneous accounts of the first travellers to be an herb with which the Haitians used to cut metals; it means now every kind of strong thread), hicaco (Chrysobalanus icaco), maghei
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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