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, ↑genip, ↑ginep, ↑Melicocca bijuga, ↑Melicocca bijugatus
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Melicoccus, ↑genus Melicoccus, ↑Melicocca, ↑genus Melicocca
• Part Meronyms: ↑genip, ↑Spanish lime
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\\ˌmämənˈsē(ˌ)(y)ō\ noun (-s)Etymology: American Spanish, diminutive of Spanish mamón mamoncillo, probably from a native name in Venezuela
: genip 2
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/mah'meuhn see"oh/; Sp. /mah'mawn see"yaw/, n., pl. mamoncillos /-see"ohz/; Sp. /-see"yaws/.
the genip, Melicoccus bijugatus.
[ < AmerSp, dim. of mamón, of uncert. orig.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.