noun
tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
• Syn:
↑Spanish lime, ↑Spanish lime tree, ↑mamoncillo, ↑genip, ↑ginep, ↑Melicocca bijuga, ↑Melicocca bijugatus
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Melicoccus, ↑genus Melicoccus, ↑Melicocca, ↑genus Melicocca
• Part Meronyms: ↑genip, ↑Spanish lime
Useful english dictionary. 2012.