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单词 tamarind
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tamarind

/ˈtam(ə)rɪnd /
noun
1 [mass noun] Sticky brown acidic pulp from the pod of a tree of the pea family, widely used as a flavouring in Asian cooking.Add the fish sauce, palm sugar, lime or tamarind, and thin coconut milk....
  • Sour and acid tastes are liked, and are manifest in the use of lime juice, tamarind, etc.
  • I tried a few new recipes, but nothing too exotic, because I wasn't sure how to go about finding galangal, shrimp paste, fenugreek, black cumin, or tamarind.
1.1 [count noun] The pod from which tamarind pulp is extracted.Put tamarind pods in a small saucepan and barely cover with boiling water....
  • Soak the tamarind in 2 cups of water, squeeze and strain out the juice.
  • Soak the tamarind in a little water and take out the pulp.
2The tropical African tree which yields tamarind pods, cultivated throughout the tropics and also grown as an ornamental and shade tree.
  • Tamarindus indica, family Leguminosae.
The exhibition includes a South African ficus, a tamarind with pods, elephant grass from Africa, cherry, bougainvillaea, fig, Accacia and trees collected from forests....
  • The tamarind is native to tropical Africa and grows wild throughout the Sudan.
  • Nothing more relaxing, you might think, than the weekly meeting of four friends in the shade of the tamarind tree.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic tamr hindī 'Indian date'.

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