Definitions
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- noun tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit
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Examples
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The vegetation of the small secondary stands consists primarily of species of "Juan Primero" (Simaruba glauca), "anón de majagua" (Lonchocarpus pentaphyllus) and "jagua" (Genipa americana).
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(They harvest the jagua fruit from which we make our all-natural black temporary tattoo product, the Earth Jagua Gel.)
Carine Fabius: When the Jungle Calls, Answer the Phone Carine Fabius 2010
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My new literary agent thought she might be able to sell my jagua book but self-publishing was my preferred path.
Carine Fabius: Field Notes From a Published and Self-Published Author 2010
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My new literary agent thought she might be able to sell my jagua book but self-publishing was my preferred path.
Carine Fabius: Field Notes From a Published and Self-Published Author 2010
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It's a little soon to tell if it will be as popular as my first book -- right now, jagua tattoos are still a fairly obscure commodity.
Carine Fabius: Field Notes From a Published and Self-Published Author 2010
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It's a little soon to tell if it will be as popular as my first book -- right now, jagua tattoos are still a fairly obscure commodity.
Carine Fabius: Field Notes From a Published and Self-Published Author 2010
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They harvest the jagua fruit from which we make our all-natural black temporary tattoo product, the Earth Jagua Gel.
Carine Fabius: When the Jungle Calls, Answer the Phone Carine Fabius 2010
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How diverse, yet equally graceful, are the aspiring branches of the jagua and the drooping foliage of the cocoa, the shuttlecock-shaped crowns of the ubussú and the plumes of the jupati, forty feet in length.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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We there find in the plains groups of heliconias and other scitamineae with large and glossy leaves, bamboos, and the three palm-trees, the murichi, jagua, and vadgiai, each of which forms a separate group.
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It has palmate leaves, and has no relation to the palm-trees with pinnate and curled leaves; to the jagua, which appears to be a species of the cocoa-tree; or to the vadgiai or cucurito, which may be assimilated to the fine species
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