Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Brazilian shrub or small tree (Myrciaria cauliflora) cultivated for its edible purplish-black fruits, which are borne directly on the trunk and larger branches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small evergreen tropical tree (
Myrciaria cauliflora ) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches. - noun The tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit of the jaboticaba tree (
Myrciaria cauliflora ), grown in Brazil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The evergreen Brazilian grape tree, Myrciaria cauliflora, a
fruit -bearing tree native toArgentina ,Brazil andParaguay . - noun Its fruit, purplish-black with a white pulp, which can be eaten raw or used in
jellies anddrinks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches
- noun tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our fruits are of exceptional quality, and we have so many kinds, including the exotic and largely untranslatable caju and jaboticaba, as well as mangos, grapes, peaches and the sweetest pineapple ever.
Rio de Janeiro 2012
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She also grows jaboticaba, whose grape-like fruits make a lovely liqueur.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Rescued from the brink of extinction, the white jaboticaba has been propagated, and will be bearing fruits sometime in the near future.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Because the fruit grows directly on the tree trunk like some sort of sweet fungus, the best way to eat one is a “jaboticaba kiss.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Because the fruit grows directly on the tree trunk like some sort of sweet fungus, the best way to eat one is a “jaboticaba kiss.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Rescued from the brink of extinction, the white jaboticaba has been propagated, and will be bearing fruits sometime in the near future.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The Brazilian fruit photographer Silvestre Silva spent ten years searching for the white jaboticaba.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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“Have you ever seen a Russian guy taste a jaboticaba for the first time?” he asks, referring to a fruit that “looks like an alien embryo and tastes totally out of this world.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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