Definition of Jamaica apple

1. Noun. Large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Jamaica Apple

Jakob Bohme
Jakob Grimm
Jakob Hermandszoon
Jakob Liebmann Beer
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Jakobson
Jalalabad
Jalen
Jalisco
Jam.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Jamahiriya
Jamaica
Jamaica Channel
Jamaica apple (current term)
Jamaica bayberry
Jamaica caper tree
Jamaica dogwood
Jamaica honeysuckle
Jamaica rum
Jamaica shorts
Jamaica sorrel
Jamaican
Jamaican Creole
Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language
Jamaican capital
Jamaican cherry
Jamaican dollar

Literary usage of Jamaica apple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"JAMAICA-APPLE. Tree, 15-20 ft. high, with young growth scurfy-pubescent : flu. opposite the ITS., greenish, and fragrant, th« exterior petals oblong-linear ..."

2. Outlines of Forestry: Or, The Elementary Principles Underlying the Science by Edwin James Houston (1893)
"... the Cherimoya, or Jamaica apple, a loose, spreading tree of the Custon Apple family, attaining a height of twenty to twenty-five feet. ..."

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