jaboticaba \jaboticaba\ n.
1. 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.
Syn: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. The tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit of the
jaboticaba tree (Myrciaria cauliflora), grown in Brazil.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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