noun
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
• Syn: ↑jaboticaba, ↑Myrciaria cauliflora
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Myrciaria, ↑genus Myrciaria, ↑Myrcia
• Part Meronyms: ↑jaboticaba
Useful english dictionary. 2012.