tonka bean

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1. tall tropical South American tree having pulpy egg-shaped pods of fragrant black almond-shaped seeds used for flavoring (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bean tree,
definition	:	any of several trees having seedpods as fruits (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	coumarouna, dipteryx, genus coumarouna, genus dipteryx,
definition	:	tropical American trees: tonka beans (noun.plant)

2. fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bean,
definition	:	any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans (noun.plant)