Indian almond

noun

1. a Malayan tree, Terminalia catappa, having edible seeds, planted widely in the tropics as a street tree.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Indian almond¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Beyond the broken boats, past the mansion with its missing roof at the downtown park where 100-year-old mahogany trees had been stripped bare, a few West Indian almond trees had survived.

From Los Angeles Times

In both respects, as I have already pointed out, they differed from the Polynesians who brought with them to their island homes not only their language but their agriculture, from the cradle of their race in the Malay Archipelago; cuttings of seedless breadfruit and of sugarcane, fleshy roots of taro and yams; even trees, like the Indian almond and the candlenut.

From Project Gutenberg