[Native American name] The West Indian Locust-tree, Hymenæa Courbaril (N. O. Leguminosæ), a common tree of tropical South America; also the resin obtained from it (called also ANIMÉ).
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supt., Hymenæa, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, first described by Plumier under the name of courbaril.
1828. Webster, Courbaril, gum anime, which flows from the Hymenæa … used for varnishing.
1852. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., I. vi. 216. The orchideæ, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree.
