Unscramble

g 2 e 1 n 1 i 1 p 3 a 1 p 3

7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind

originBorrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jenipapo, from Old Tupi îanypaba. The Tupi meaning of the word is variously given as yandi-pawa or yandi-pab (“fruit for painting”), yandi-ibá-pab (“fruit of the extremities for painting”), and without citation or explanation, “breast of an old woman”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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