guangon.

/ˈɡwaŋɡəʊ/

Etymology: < American Spanish guango, probably < Quechua.

The Jamaican name for an ornamental tree, Samanea saman, of the family Leguminosæ, the pods of which are used as cattle fodder; also called rain-tree (see rain n.¹ Compounds 2) and saman n.²

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1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. x. 75 Getting little or no food but cassava cakes and ‘guango’ of maize..he stumbled in suddenly on one squatting after another.

1886 E. D. M. Hooper Rep. Forests of Jamaica 31 Guango, Pithecolobium (Inga) saman.

1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 152 Guango... The wood is hard and ornamental, but cross-grained and difficult to saw.

1956 J. Hearne Stranger at Gate vii. 55 Under the guango tree Tom and Joshua..were saddling the ponies.

1963 E. T. Robertson & E. G. B. Gooding Bot. for Caribbean xxiii. 183 Guango, Saman or Rain Tree—Enterolobium saman. This is a large, spreading tree, a native of Central and South America, naturalised or cultivated throughout the West Indies.

1971 H. D. Carberry in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 25 Also there are the days when the leaves fade from off guango trees.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	guango
释义	guangon. /ˈɡwaŋɡəʊ/ Etymology: < American Spanish guango, probably < Quechua. The Jamaican name for an ornamental tree, Samanea saman, of the family Leguminosæ, the pods of which are used as cattle fodder; also called rain-tree (see rain n.¹ Compounds 2) and saman n.² ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > guango monkey-pod1868 guango1871 saman1888 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. x. 75 Getting little or no food but cassava cakes and ‘guango’ of maize..he stumbled in suddenly on one squatting after another. 1886 E. D. M. Hooper Rep. Forests of Jamaica 31 Guango, Pithecolobium (Inga) saman. 1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 152 Guango... The wood is hard and ornamental, but cross-grained and difficult to saw. 1956 J. Hearne Stranger at Gate vii. 55 Under the guango tree Tom and Joshua..were saddling the ponies. 1963 E. T. Robertson & E. G. B. Gooding Bot. for Caribbean xxiii. 183 Guango, Saman or Rain Tree—Enterolobium saman. This is a large, spreading tree, a native of Central and South America, naturalised or cultivated throughout the West Indies. 1971 H. D. Carberry in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. 25 Also there are the days when the leaves fade from off guango trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1871
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