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tonca bean

tonca bean is the alternative form of tonka bean.

Meaning of tonka bean

Noun

tonka bean (plural tonka beans)

  1. A black wrinkled seed of a neotropical legume tree of species Dipteryx odorata, used as a perfume and vanilla substitute due to its high coumarin content.
    • Like when she and Seema […] climb the tonka bean tree.2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 155

Forms of tonca bean

pluraltonca beans

Questions about tonca bean

What is tonca bean the alternative form of?
Tonca bean is the alternative form of tonka bean.

Words near tonca bean in the dictionary

  1. Tonbridge
  2. Tonbridge and Malling
  3. Tonbridgian
  4. Tonbridgians
  5. tonca
  6. tonca bean
  7. tonca beans
  8. Tonche
  9. Tonches
  10. Tonderburine
  11. tondi

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