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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a common thorny tropical American tree (Pithecellobium dulce) having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum.

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  • noun common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum

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  • - itl, and - otl, for example, generally ended up in Spanish as words ending in - ate, - ite, and - ote, e.g., coyote from coyotl, otate from ottatl, camachile from cuauh-mochitl.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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