Meaning

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

noun tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil

originEtymology tree Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaβoti Old Tupi îaboti Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaβ Proto-Tupian *-ap Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ? Old Tupi -a Old Tupi kaba Old Tupi îabutikababor. Brazilian Portuguese jabuticababor. English jaboticaba Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jaboticaba (also spelt jabuticaba), from Old Tupi îabutikaba (“jaboticaba fruit”, literally “jabuti fat”).

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