Definitions

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  • noun Any of several tropical American trees, of the genus Spondias
  • noun The purple fruit of these trees

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  • noun purplish tropical fruit
  • noun common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit

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Examples

  • The most abundant trees of the primary forest are babaçu, Eugenia sp., the yellow mombin fruit Spondias mombin, a hardwood timber Gustavia augusta, a legume Swartzia polyphylla, Hyeronima alchorneoides, and a tree used for incense, Protium heptaphyllum.

    Maranhão Babaçu forests 2008

  • Today, the most common vegetation is represented by Crescentia cujete, Guazuma ulmifolia, Cassia fistula, Bursera graveolens, Spondias mombin, Bauhinia picta, Ceiba pentandra and Gliricidia sepium.

    Patía Valley dry forests 2008

  • Secondary forests primarily host babaçu mixed with some Spondias mombin, another palm, Astrocaryum vulgare, and the pioneer tree Cecropia concolor.

    Maranhão Babaçu forests 2008

  • Now before entering the water, they gathered all around the periphery of the basin where the herbalists had set up their dusty stations, displaying sooty boxes, hunks of root, loose bags of mombin leaves, and tubs of water and herbs.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Oris was stretched out in the shade of a mombin batard tree, resting on one elbow and gnawing on a stick of sugarcane.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • While at OSU, Olufunke Ola-Davies, a veterinary biochemist at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, has continued her research on Spondias mombin, a plum tree, and Chromolaena odorata,

    Media Newswire 2008

  • Kilala ito sa iba't-ibang pangalan: Jocote, o ciruela, sa Central America; Hog plum, red mombin, purple mombin sa wikang Ingles; sineguelas, o sinegwelas, sa wikang Tagalog.

    Bisaya Bloggers 2008

  • Kilala ito sa iba't-ibang pangalan: Jocote, o ciruela, sa Central America; Hog plum, red mombin, purple mombin sa wikang Ingles; sineguelas, o sinegwelas, sa wikang Tagalog.

    Bisaya Bloggers 2008

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