Jaboticaba
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The evergreen Brazilian grape tree, Myrciaria cauliflora, a fruit-bearing tree native to Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
- 2 tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil wordnet
- 3 Its fruit, purplish-black with a white pulp, which can be eaten raw or used in jellies and drinks.
"If you don't have jaboticabas, use red grapes, but make sure they are an old-fashioned seedy, intensely flavoured variety."
- 4 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 wordnet
Example
More examples"If you don't have jaboticabas, use red grapes, but make sure they are an old-fashioned seedy, intensely flavoured variety."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaβoti Old Tupi îaboti Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaβ Proto-Tupian *-ap Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ? Old Tupi -a Old Tupi kaba Old Tupi îabutikababor. Brazilian Portuguese jabuticababor. English jaboticaba Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jaboticaba (also spelt jabuticaba), from Old Tupi îabutikaba (“jaboticaba fruit”, literally “jabuti fat”).
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