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Definition of Cocoa plum
1. Noun. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
Terms within: Coco Plum, Icaco
Group relationships: Chrysobalanus, Genus Chrysobalanus
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
2. Noun. Plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American.
Generic synonyms: Edible Fruit
Group relationships: Chrysobalanus Icaco, Coco Plum, Coco Plum Tree, Icaco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocoa Plum
Literary usage of Cocoa plum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Value of Fruits and Nine Hundred by Riley Maria Fletcher Berry (1907)
"... CHAPTER XXX SAPODILLA, MAMMEE SAPOTA, WHITE SAPOTA, STAR APPLE, cocoa plum
AND EGG FRUIT (or "Ti-es") THESE fruits come under the ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"C. Icaco, Cocoa-Plum, has nearly orbicular or obovate leaves, emar- ginate'; ...
The root, bark, and leaves are used in medicine. Cocoa-Plum ..."
3. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"The Cocoa-plum Association. ... Meyer (cocoa plum), 25 feet high and 14 inches
in diameter—a size most unusual for this species. CONOCARPUS-FLAT FORMATION. ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"COCOA-PLUM. ICACO. On coasts and along streams in S. Fla., to S. Amer., and also
in Afr., and is sometimes planted in the extreme S. (and in the tropics) as ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Two species in the warm parts of Amer, and Afr. The cocoa plum, C. Icaco, ...
The cocoa plum is a mere bush on the northern limits of its distribution, ..."
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