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tonqua bean

tonqua 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 tonqua bean

pluraltonqua beans

Questions about tonqua bean

What is tonqua bean the alternative form of?
Tonqua bean is the alternative form of tonka bean.

Words near tonqua bean in the dictionary

  1. tonotopically
  2. tonotopicity
  3. tonotopy
  4. tonous
  5. tonqua
  6. tonqua bean
  7. tonqua beans
  8. tonquin
  9. tonquin bean
  10. tonquin beans
  11. Tonquinese

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