tsada or tswada (Sok.), Ximenia americana, Linn. (Olacineæ); a shrub with small yellow plum-like fruit of acid taste.
tsadar Lamarudu or tsadar Masar, Spondias lutea, Linn. (Anacardiaceæ); “Hog Plum;” “Yellow Spanish” or “Jamaica Plum.” A tree with alternate pinnate leaves, warty bark and a yellow drupaceous fruit with acid aromatic taste. (Benué region and the south. Lamarudu was a historic king in the time of the Prophet).
tsaido or tsidau (Kano, &c.), tsaida (Sok.), Tribulus terrestris, Linn. (Zygophylleæ). “Caltrop;” (cf. [dayi]). A prostrate yellow-flowered weed with a strongly-spined fruit that injures the foot; a common pest of paths and waste places. (Etym. probably = “stop”).
tsakara, Anchomanes Dalzielli, N. E. Brown, and other allied species (Aroideæ); an aroid with a large much divided leaf on a tall prickly stem; the tuber is eaten in scarcity after prolonged boiling to remove the acridity. cf. also [hansar gada]?
tsamiya, Tamarindus indica, Linn. (Leguminosæ). Tamarind Tree. A large tree with pinnate leaves and yellowish or red-striped flowers; the acid pulp of the pods is used in various ways as food and drink and as a laxative medicine. (The tree is the host of one of the species of wild silkworm—Anaphe sp. also called tsamiya). ḍan garraza (Kano), tun jamjam? (East Hausa) = flowers of tsamiya eaten fresh and made up into comestibles.
tsamiyar makiyaya, ts. mahalba, or ts. ḳassa, Nelsonia campestris, R. Br. (Acanthaceæ); a soft-leaved prostrate weed with slightly acid leaves and close spikes of small pink flowers.
tsana, an edible cucumber-shaped var. of the bottle-gourd? vide under [duma].
tsarariya, a var. of the common country bean, [wake], q.v.
tsarkiyar kusu, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis, Vahl. (Verbenaceæ). “Devil’s coach-whip.” A weed with a long narrow spike of pale blue flowers; used medicinally. Syn. wutsiyar kusu (or w. ḅera), and sometimes wutsiyar ḳadangare.
tsarkiyar zomo (Sok.). Dub Grass, vide [kiri kiri].