The zamang is a fine species of mimosa, and its tortuous branches are divided by bifurcation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

The animal lay stretched beneath the shade of a large zamang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

This zamang must be at least as old as the Orotava dragon-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

The monkeys, after a short consultation, were seen scampering up the zamang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

Many of the pupunha palms grew under the shadow of this zamang, but not the tallest ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

The road is bordered with large zamang-trees, or mimosas, the trunks of which rise to sixty feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

It was the lowermost limb of a large zamang-tree, that stood on the bank close to the edge of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

It was observed to look forward and upward toward the branch of the zamang, as if the object it dreaded was in that quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

We heard with satisfaction that the present proprietor of the zamang had brought an action against a cultivator who had been guilty of cutting off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

We heard with satisfaction that the present proprietor of the zamang had brought an action against a cultivator who had been guilty of cutting off a branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

Once the cable was let go, they must inevitably pass under the limb of the zamang; and if that caught the toldo, it would sweep off the frail roof like so much spider's-web.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

The father obliged the young girl to climb up a very lofty zamang or acacia, which grew in the plain at some distance from the hut, while he stretched himself at the foot of the tree, and did not permit his daughter to descend till the hunters had departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

It is neither a hill, nor a group of trees close to each other, but one single tree, the famous zamang del Guayre, known throughout the province for the enormous extent of its branches, which form a hemispheric head five hundred and seventy-six feet in circumference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

We shall see the giant "ceiba" tree, and the "zamang," and the "caoba," twined by huge parasites almost as thick as their own trunks, and looking as though they embraced but to crush them; the "juvia," with its globe-shaped fruits as large as the human head; the "cow-tree," with its abundant fountains of rich milk; the "seringa," with its valuable gum -- the caoutchouc of commerce; the "cinchona," with its fever-killing bark; the curious "volador," with its winged seeds; the wild indigo, and the arnatto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference