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Dec 19, 2008
This week's themeToponyms from India This week's words golconda doolally jodhpurs calico tamarind Tamarind Pods
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with Anu Gargtamarind
PRONUNCIATION:
(TAM-uh-rind)
MEANING:
noun:
The pod of the tree Tamarindus indica, the pulp of which is sour in taste
and used in preparing food and drinks.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tamarindus, from Arabic tamr (date) + hindi (Indian), owing to
the date-like consistency of its pulp.
USAGE:
"Trimming staff may be a consideration, but this will have to be considered
against the background that the economy may begin to 'recover' by 2012 ...
We Jamaicans have been so seasoned to hardships that this extended tamarind
season may be tailor-made for us."Mark Wignall; Bracing for 2009 and Beyond; Jamaica Observer (Kingston); Dec 4, 2008. See more usage examples of tamarind in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962)
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