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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small tree (Caesalpinia coriaria) in the pea family, native to the West Indies and South America, having compound leaves and long pods.
  • noun Tannin extracted from the pods of this tree.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The native and commercial name of Cæsalpinia coriaria and its pods.
  • noun A name given to the similar pods of C. tinetoria, which are used in Lima for making ink.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A small tree of tropical America (Cæsalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Cæsalpinia coriaria, a leguminous tree of the southern Western Hemisphere
  • noun The seed-pods of Cæsalpinia coriaria, formerly used in tanning

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun twisted seed pods of the divi-divi tree; source of tannin
  • noun small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish dividivi, probably of Cariban origin.]

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Via Spanish, from a Cariban language.

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