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    JABOTICABA TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    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 branchesplay

    Synonyms:

    jaboticaba; jaboticaba tree; Myrciaria cauliflora

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

    Meronyms (parts of "jaboticaba tree"):

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

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

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

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