saman2
(sæˈmɑːn)
Also samaan, samang.
[a. Amer. Sp. samán, f. Carib zamang.]
= guango, zamang. Also attrib.
| 1888, etc. [see monkey-pod (tree) s.v. monkey n. 18 b]. 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle ii. iii. 46 The huge tents of the saman trees were islands of blackness in the cooling streams of night air. 1958 G. Lamming Of Age & Innocence ii. vii. 117 The tall black samaan tree at the curve of the hill-top. 1960 Times 10 Mar. 18/3 The saman trees..were full of holders of tree tickets. 1963 [see guango]. 1968 E. Lovelace Schoolmaster viii. 120 Christiana was sitting on the trunk of a fallen samaan tree in the shade near the cocoa house. 1974 Times 5 Feb. 12/4 Queen's Park Oval is unlike its namesake at Kennington. Where the gasholders should be there are some fine samaan trees, with a range of low, wooded hills right behind them. |