Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A common tropical American shrub or small tree (Spondias purpurea) with purplish fruit.

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  • noun mombin

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  • noun common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit

Etymologies

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From Spanish jocote

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Examples

  • No party thrown by the family was complete without Sanchito's contribution; a clown, a toucan, a giant carrot filled with sweets and sugar cane, jocote plums and oranges, and adorned tastefully with cut paper and rope hair.

    Where Toucan Fly - A Short Story Beth 2008

  • No party thrown by the family was complete without Sanchito's contribution; a clown, a toucan, a giant carrot filled with sweets and sugar cane, jocote plums and oranges, and adorned tastefully with cut paper and rope hair.

    Where Toucan Fly - A Short Story Beth 2008

  • Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis report that farmers and families in Central America actually have saved genetic variation in the jocote (ho-CO-tay), Spondias purpurea, a small tree that bears fruit similar to a tiny mango.

    King David's descendants; Science news releases 2005

  • All this was affirmed with the greatest gravity, while a dozen fat fowls were distinctly visible through the open doorway, perched, for the night, among the bare limbs of the _jocote_ trees in the court-yard.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

  • She offers all kinds of fruit like: pinapple, watermelon, plantain, jocote (also called Mombin, is a small fruit that can be eaten either when it is still unripe and green, or when the fruit has ripened and has a dark red color), etc.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • She offers all kinds of fruit like: pinapple, watermelon, plantain, jocote (also called Mombin, is a small fruit that can be eaten either when it is still unripe and green, or when the fruit has ripened and has a dark red color), etc.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • Ella lleva 5 años trabajando en este negocio junto con su compañero de vida e invertirá el crédito en la compra de cosechas especialmente de mango, aguacate, jocote que es la fruta de temporada.

    Kiva Loans 2010

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