Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Brazilian shrub (Myrciaria cauliflora) cultivated for its purplish-black fruits, which are borne directly on its trunk and larger branches.
Wiktionary
- n. The evergreen Brazilian grape tree, Myrciaria cauliflora, a fruit-bearing tree native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
- n. Its fruit, purplish-black with a white pulp, which can be eaten raw or used in jellies and drinks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small evergreen tropical tree (Myrciaria cauliflora) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.
- n. The tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit of the jaboticaba tree (Myrciaria cauliflora), grown in Brazil.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil
Etymologies
- From Portuguese jaboticaba (also spelt jabuticaba), from Tupian yawoti’kawa ("jaboticaba fruit") or ïapoti’kaba ("fruit in bloom"). (Wiktionary)
- Portuguese, from Tupi iauoti kaua, having branches tipped with black fruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Our fruits are of exceptional quality, and we have so many kinds, including the exotic and largely untranslatable caju and jaboticaba, as well as mangos, grapes, peaches and the sweetest pineapple ever.”
“She also grows jaboticaba, whose grape-like fruits make a lovely liqueur.”
““Have you ever seen a Russian guy taste a jaboticaba for the first time?” he asks, referring to a fruit that “looks like an alien embryo and tastes totally out of this world.””
“The Brazilian fruit photographer Silvestre Silva spent ten years searching for the white jaboticaba.”
“Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.””
“Rescued from the brink of extinction, the white jaboticaba has been propagated, and will be bearing fruits sometime in the near future.”
“Because the fruit grows directly on the tree trunk like some sort of sweet fungus, the best way to eat one is a “jaboticaba kiss.””
“I've used this on miracle fruit, coffee, pitomba, jaboticaba and lychee.”
“Choose from a wide selection of traditional dishes and succulent meats including fresh shrimp and fish bobo, pork ribs with jaboticaba sauce and tasty endive, chicken, mango, coconut milk and yogurt salad.”
“[ECHO's jaboticaba tree is producing a bumper crop.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jaboticaba’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, hansard, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot and 237 more...
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Grapes
sour grapes, grape, grapes, raisin, Nehi grape soda, Petit Verdot, Concord, Pinot Meunier, scuppernong, muscadine, Catawba, seedless and 112 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Not-so-basic words.
postmeridian, post meridiem, ante meridiem, cataclysm, laconic, taciturn, reticent, concupiscence, strive, indigo, apricot, jaboticaba and 24 more...
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sotzie's words
woozy, jaboticaba, poesy, juxtaposition, bifurcate, voluptuous, opiate, tambourine, ochre
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