Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rain-tree .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 calledrain tree .
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- noun Alternative form of
zaman (Albizia saman).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
Etymologies
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Examples
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The zamang is a fine species of mimosa, and its tortuous branches are divided by bifurcation.
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The zamang is a fine species of mimosa, and its tortuous branches are divided by bifurcation.
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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It was the "zamang" tree -- a species of _mimosa_, and one of the most beautiful trees of South America.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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It was the "zamang" tree -- a species of _mimosa_, and one of the most beautiful trees of South America.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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The trunk of the zamang del Guayre, * which is found on the road from Turmero to Maracay, is only sixty feet high, and nine thick; but its real beauty consists in the form of its head.
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The inhabitants of these villages, but particularly the Indians, hold in veneration the zamang del Guayre, which the first conquerors found almost in the same state in which it now remains.
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We heard with satisfaction that the present proprietor of the zamang had brought an action against a cultivator who had been guilty of cutting off
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The road is bordered with large zamang-trees, or mimosas, the trunks of which rise to sixty feet high.
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This zamang must be at least as old as the Orotava dragon-tree.
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The animal lay stretched beneath the shade of a large zamang.
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