| Noun | 1. | jaboticaba tree - 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 |