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noun A tropical western African evergreen tree (Blighia sapida) having leathery red and yellow fruits. It is naturalized and cultivated in the tropics and in Florida.
noun The edible, fleshy, ripe aril of this tree, especially popular as a food in Jamaica. The seeds and unripe arils are poisonous.

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She also brought a fruit called akee, which she said she used to eat from trees in Haiti, and it tasted fine to me, but she said akee can never be eaten before it's opened, or before it's ripe, because it makes your brain swell up and you can die. — F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 02 - August 2000
-- The akee fruit of Guinea. — Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

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Possibly Kru akee or Akan (Twi) aŋkyẽ, wild cashew.

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