Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical American evergreen tree (Genipa americana) having yellowish-white flowers and edible fruits used in preserves or drinks. The fruits yield dark blue dye that is used extensively as a body paint by Indians of tropical America.
- n. The reddish-brown fruit of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fruit of Genipa Americana, of the West Indies and South America. It is of about the size of an orange, and of a pleasant vinous flavor. In Surinam it is often called
marmalade-box .
Wiktionary
- n. The edible fruit of a West Indian tree Genipa Americana of the order Rubiaceæ, oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind
Etymologies
- Portuguese genipapo, from Tupi jenipapo, from yandi-ipab, genipap fruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- This belongs to the cinchona family, and produces the fruit called genipap or marmalade box.”
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
“The marks on their bodies were of a different, dark juice, genipap, which was used to create the most intricate of geometrical designs; a form of decoration that tended to distract the eye from the otherwise total nakedness of the Xara females.”
“Because I was not brought up with my people, I am not very fast or very clever at the things a Xara woman must do - the weaving of baskets, the working with bark, the grating of manioc, the drawing of designs with genipap juice - ”
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