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Genip

noun
1.
Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.  Synonyms: ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree.
2.
Round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes.  Synonym: Spanish lime.





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... BIJUGA.—This sapindaceous tree is plentiful in tropical America and the West Indies, and is known as the Genip tree. It produces numerous green egg-shaped fruits, an inch in length, possessing an agreeable vinous and somewhat aromatic flavor, called honey berries or bullace plums. The wood of the tree ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders


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