jaboticaba

n.
A Brazilian shrub (Myrciaria cauliflora) cultivated for its purplish-black fruits, which are borne directly on its trunk and larger branches.

[Portuguese, from Tupi iauoti kaua, having branches tipped with black fruit.]

Fruit of the tree Myrciaria cauliflora with purple astringent skin and sweet white pulp; the fruits grow straight from the trunk.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: 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 branches
  Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora

Meaning #2: tough-skinned purple grape-like tropical fruit grown in Brazil

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