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Definition of Icaco

1. Noun. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.

2. Noun. Plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Icaco

ibn Talal Hussein iboga ibogaine ibogaines ibolium privet ibota privet ibotenate ibotenic ibotenic acid ibrik

ibriks ibritumomab ibritumomab tiuxetan ibuprofen ibuprofens icaco (current term) icaridin iccosome ice ice-breaker

ice-breakers ice-calm ice-clogged ice-cold ice-cream ice-cream bean ice-cream cake ice-cream cone ice-cream float ice-cream soda

Literary usage of Icaco

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

1. Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut by Wilson Popenoe (1920)
"In Cuba, where the Spanish name icaco (often spelled ... The icaco is a large shrub or small tree, attaining a maximum height of 25 or 30 feet. ..."

2. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"Chrysobalanus icaco. icaco. PLATE XXVI. Family Rosaceae; shrub 2 meters high, found on dry beaches; known as " cocoa- plum." Fruits about the size of a ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"Trees with simple leaves, and racemes or panicles of insignificant flowers. The fruit of all the species is edible. C. icaco, Cocoa-Plum, ..."

4. New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes by Isaac Farwell Holton (1857)
"It was Chrysobalanus icaco, here called icaco. It is a plum, used in one of those innumerable kinds of sweetmeats called dulce. I described the flesh of the ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"icaco. On coasts and along streams in S. Fla. ... about half the size of that of C. icaco; it grows in extreme S. Fla. and farther south; probably not ..."

6. The Conquest of New Granada: Being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1922)
"One of them, Captain Urbina, joined the Licen- 1 The icaco is the Chrysobalanus icaco. It is known in Cartagena as " Uvas de Playa " (Grapes of the Shore), ..."

7. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... in. long, and numerous solitary fascicled corymbose heads of fragrant white flowers ; Monrovia and Sino Basin, Whyte\ ROSACE/E Chrysobalanus icaco, ..."

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