Meanings
plural monkeypods
- Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.First known use 19th c.
Tears filled the eyes of some of the people heading to work that morning who heard the strains of music in the deposed queen's harden, among its tamarind and monkeypod trees.
2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 231 - Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
- Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
Synonyms: paradise nut
- Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
Synonyms: sweet Inga, Madrasthorn, Manila tamarind
- Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAlbizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.
nounLecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
nounPithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
More synonyms by meaning
nounlarge ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Cite this entry
monkeypod. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monkeypod
“monkeypod.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monkeypod. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monkeypod,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monkeypod.
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