JABOTICABA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jaboticaba mean? 

• JABOTICABA (noun)
  The noun JABOTICABA has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil

  Familiarity information: JABOTICABA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JABOTICABA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jaboticaba; jaboticaba tree; Myrciaria cauliflora

Hypernyms ("jaboticaba" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "jaboticaba"):

jaboticaba (tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil)

Holonyms ("jaboticaba" is a member of...):

genus Myrciaria; Myrcia; Myrciaria (a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("jaboticaba" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("jaboticaba" is a part of...):

jaboticaba; jaboticaba tree; Myrciaria cauliflora (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)