It can be obtained from the tonka bean by extraction with alcohol.
Besides these, tonka beans, anatto, vanilla, and castor-oil seeds form a part of the exports.
Two fruit trees whose products are well known throughout Europe grow in the regions of Guayana, the Brazil nut and tonka bean trees.
Tonka beans are a staple of great value in the regions watered by the Orinoco River and its tributaries, and almost the entire crop of Venezuelan Tonka beans are exported by the way of Ciudad Bolívar.
The bean is a natural product and needs no cultivation, as a general rule; it is gathered in the Tonka forests existing in the Amazon territory and the District of Cedeno, in the Venezuelan Guianas.
TONKA BEANS These beans, which are exported from Venezuela on a large scale, have the shape of a large black almond and give out a delicious perfume.
One ounce of cumarin is equal to four pounds of tonka beans.
It should be noted that cumarin and vanillin, however they may be made, are not imitations, but identical with the chief constituent of the tonka and vanilla beans and, of course, are equally wholesome or harmless.
They are friendly to the whites, and industrious, selling to traders large quantities of farina, sarsaparilla, rubber, and tonka beans.
Large quantities of sarsaparilla, rubber, tonka beans, mandioca, and guarana are brought down this river.
According to the other method, the bruised tonka beans are distilled with water.
Cumarin is sometimes also obtained by purifying by recrystallization of the débris found in the original boxes of tonka beans, which chiefly consists of cumarin.
From tonka beans, cumarin may be obtained by two different methods.
The English tonka beans are smaller, white-yellowish inside, nearly black outside, and of inferior quality to the Dutch beans.
From one pound of good tonka beans, up to 4 drachms of cumarin may be obtained.
This may be wholly or in part the extract of the Tonka bean or may be made from a chemical substance known as vanillin.
These beans sell at wholesale for from ten to fifteen dollars a pound, and the cheap extracts are made from the Tonka bean or from a chemical product known as vanillin.
They also gather large quantities of sarsaparilla, India-rubber, and Tonka beans, in the forests.
The tree which yields the tonka bean (Dipteryx odorata), used in Europe for scenting snuff, is also of frequent occurrence here.
The acceptance of these by her father is a sign that the match is agreeable to him, and a jholla tonka (bride-price) of five rupees is paid to him.
Eunice held the wool, grandma wound it off, and Zaidee and Helen played tonka on the piazza steps.
But for you my poor back would have been beaten to a tonka bean.
This occasioned great mirth among the rest of the Indians who all exclaimed, "Tonka Squaw" and looked at her admiringly.
At this the chief laughed and said, "Tonka Squaw" meaning brave woman and they left.
One of them slipped up, and patting her on the back said, "Tonka squaw!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
