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guango|ˈgwæŋgəʊ|
[a. Amer. Sp. guango, prob. from Quechua.]
The Jamaican name for an ornamental tree, Samanea saman, of the family Leguminosæ, the pods of which are used as cattle fodder; also called rain-tree (s.v. rain n.1) and saman.
1886E. D. M. Hooper Rep. Forests of Jamaica 31 Guango, Pithecolobium (Inga) saman. 1920Fawcett & Rendle Flora of Jamaica IV. 152 Guango... The wood is hard and ornamental, but cross-grained and difficult to saw. 1956J. Hearne Stranger at Gate vii. 55 Under the guango tree Tom and Joshua..were saddling the ponies. 1963Robertson & Gooding Bot. for Caribbean xxiii. 183 Guango, Saman or Rain Tree—Enterolobium saman. This is a large, spreading tree, a native of Central and South America, naturalised or cultivated throughout the West Indies. 1971H. D. Carberry in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 25 Also there are the days when the leaves fade from off guango trees. |