noun
tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
• Syn:
↑Spanish lime, ↑Spanish lime tree, ↑honey berry, ↑mamoncillo, ↑genip, ↑Melicocca bijuga, ↑Melicocca bijugatus
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Melicoccus, ↑genus Melicoccus, ↑Melicocca, ↑genus Melicocca
• Part Meronyms: ↑genip, ↑Spanish lime
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variant of genip
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/keuh nep", geuh-/, n.
genip.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.