acacia
A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae. Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Other meanings
The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica, Egyptian acacia). Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
A false acacia; robinia tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἀκακία" (shittah tree).
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