noun
common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit
• Syn: ↑mombin, ↑mombin tree, ↑Spondias purpurea
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Spondias, ↑genus Spondias
• Part Meronyms: ↑mombin
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\\hōˈkō(ˌ)tā\ noun (-s)Etymology: American Spanish, from Nahuatl xocotl
: mombin
Useful english dictionary. 2012.