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tonquin bean
Tonka bean Ton"ka bean` [Cf. F. onca, tonka.] (Bot.) The seed of a leguminous tree (Dipteryx odorata), native of Guiana. It has a peculiarly agreeable smell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tonquin bean. [Written also tonca bean, tonga bean.]
Tonquin bean
Tonquin bean Ton"quin bean` (t[o^][-n]"k[i^]n b[=e]n). See Tonka bean.

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- Tonquin was a 290-ton American merchant ship initially operated by Fanning & Coles and later by the Pacific Fur Company (PFC), a subsidiary of the American...
- Tonquin may refer to: Tonquin (1807), an American merchant vessel destro**** on Vancouver Island in 1811 Tonquin (1845), a later American commercial vessel...
- The Tonquin Valley is a backcountry area in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada po****r for hiking, back****ng, and mountaineering. The Tonquin features...
- semi-deciduous. Its seeds are known as tonka beans (sometimes tonkin beans or tonquin beans). They are black and wrinkled and have a smooth, brown interior....
- Tonquin is an unincorporated locale in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Tonquin was a station on the Oregon Electric Railway, named for the Pacific...
- Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin, Tonquin or Tongking, is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this...
- Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was sent on board the Tonquin, while another party traveled overland from St. Louis. This land based...
- 1811 involving the Tla-o-qui-aht natives of the Pacific Northwest and the Tonquin, an American merchant ship of the Astor Expedition. The vessel had traveled...
- The Tonquin was a 496-ton merchant vessel built in 1845 by Waterman & Ewell in Medford, M****achusetts, and owned by George R. Minot and Nathaniel Hooper...
- Tonquin Hill is located on the northern side of Tonquin P****, north of Mount Fraser, on the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border...