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tonga bean

tonga 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 tonga bean

pluraltonga beans

Questions about tonga bean

What is tonga bean the alternative form of?
Tonga bean is the alternative form of tonka bean.

Words near tonga bean in the dictionary

  1. tong war
  2. tong wars
  3. Tong'an
  4. Tong-King
  5. tonga
  6. tonga bean
  7. tonga beans
  8. Tonga Trench
  9. Tongala
  10. Tongalese
  11. Tongan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tonga bean (page history and authors); tonka bean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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