kamachilin.
/kɑːməˈtʃiːli/ A tree, Pithecolobium dulce, of the family Leguminosæ, native to tropical America and naturalized in the Philippines, having edible pods and bark that yields a yellow dye. Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > other trees yielding dyes
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 898/2 P[ithecolobium] dulce..produces cylindrical irregularly swollen pods, curled at the top, containing a sweet edible pulp, which the Mexicans, who call the tree Guamachil, boil and eat.
1903 E. D. Merrill Dict. Plant Names Philippine Islands 44 Camachilis, T[agalog]. Pithecolobium dulce Benth.
1915 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. A. 10 353 The price of air-dried camanchile bark has risen.
1923 E. D. Merrill Enumeration Philippine Flowering Plants II. 243 Pithecolobium dulce... Throughout the Philippines... Introduced from Mexico; now pantropic. Local names:..kamachili (Tag.); kamachilis (Tag.)..all corruptions or modifications of the Aztec kwamochitl.
1937 Nature 16 Oct. 687/1 Several trees growing in the Philippine Islands yield liquors suitable for tanning purposes. The betel nut, Areca Catechu..and kamachile, Pithecolobium dulce, are..the most important trees.
1954 W. H. Brown Useful Plants of Philippines II. 154 Camanchile bark is used almost exclusively by Filipino tanners.
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