coumarou (plural coumarous)
The tree Dipteryx odorata, which bears the tonka bean.
The tonka bean itself.

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-oxetine
abandoned
absent vote
accounting in charge
angular resolving power
arbitrage interest
Archimedes' screw
axigluon
ball valve sampler
boron phenyldifluoride
cacophonously
central longitudinal bulkhead
cheecha
churn ... out
class words
common gateway interface
completely ramified extension
conductive rubber stick
congestion charges
connective tissue
coromandel screen
custodian trustee
dail calliper
dew point nocturnal curve
diphenylhexatriene
dust pan
engall
epitomistic
exothyropexy
flat-field objective
food consumption
forestry
four point resistivity test system
free water clearance
gaudier-brzeska
get flustered
granville road
hand furnace
heavy hydrocarbon
ice fringe
improper fraction
injector tube
interest free credit
intra-arachnoid
IOV
iris tapetum
knifelike
knock the sand from under sb
Koppers coke oven
mahogany-lined
malacotic
margulies
matched comparison
matrilineality
midride
movie-goers
noncyanotic
olfactory groove meningioma
oliva inferior
ovando
overlap ratio
parqueting
pars encephalica
PerformanceTest
pile the pressure on
plastic lipping
PLEDS
posterior row of eyes
pressure-tube reactor
primitive ring
project type assistance
Propionylpromethazine
rate of time preference
regio glut?
rescuemen
Right boys
rooiman
roseaker
sada
safety bulb pipet
savored
secability
seldman
shaking it
significative
similar chiral centres
Simontomya
slow-releasing
somatize
somnambulate
sphincteromyomectomy
sun dance of minos (crete)
swatches
system service request
Teasmade
tender spares
thermonegative reaction
toprak
tyre cover
viloside
washing column
water jet air ejector