Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tropical American tree (
Melicocca bijuga , orMelicocca bijugatus ) bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
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- noun A tree, scientific name
Melicoccus bijugatus, of theSapindaceae family, native toCentral andSouth America . - noun The fruit from the longan tree.
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- noun tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[American Spanish, from diminutive of mamón, papaya, genip, from Spanish, suckling, sucker (probably applied to the genip because the flesh of its fruit is sucked out of its skin whole), from mamar, to suck, from Old Spanish, from Latin mammāre, to give suck, from mamma, breast, teat; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Spanish
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Examples
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Piragua* the other night," "don't go by Zapata and G where you might be assaulted," "a former policeman killed a child for stealing mamoncillo fruit," "don't even think of going to Central Havana after ten."
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