noun
1. tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
• Syn:
↑Spanish lime tree, ↑honey berry, ↑mamoncillo, ↑genip, ↑ginep, ↑Melicocca bijuga, ↑Melicocca bijugatus
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Melicoccus, ↑genus Melicoccus, ↑Melicocca, ↑genus Melicocca
• Part Meronyms: ↑genip
2. round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes
• Syn: ↑genip
• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit
• Part Holonyms:
↑Spanish lime tree, ↑honey berry, ↑mamoncillo, ↑genip, ↑ginep, ↑Melicocca bijuga, ↑Melicocca bijugatus
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nounUsage: usually capitalized S
: genip 2
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genip (def. 2).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.