tonka bean
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edittonka bean (plural tonka beans)
- A black wrinkled seed of a neotropical legume tree of species Dipteryx odorata, used as a perfume and vanilla substitute due to its high coumarin content.
- 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 155:
- Like when she and Seema [...] climb the tonka bean tree.