bull-horn acacia

bull-horn acacia
noun
Etymology: so called from the shape of the thorns
: any of several hollow-thorned trees of the genus Acacia; especially : a large-thorned chiefly Central American tree (A. cornigera) the thorns of which are inhabited by ants

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