ja·bo·ti·ca·ba (zh -b  t -kä b)n. A Brazilian shrub (Myrciaria cauliflora) cultivated for its purplish-black fruits, which are borne directly on its trunk and larger branches. [Portuguese, from Tupi iauoti kaua, having branches tipped with black fruit.] |
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| Noun | 1. | jaboticaba - 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 jaboticaba - tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil genus Myrciaria, Myrcia, Myrciaria - a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit |
| 2. | jaboticaba - tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh 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 |
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