ackee
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- noun
- /ˈaki/
- UK
- When cooking ackee, make sure it is fully ripe to avoid any poisonous effects.
- salt fish and ackee
- fish and ackee
Examples
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The unique flavor of ackee makes it a staple ingredient in many Jamaican recipes.
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He told me how to ensure that ackee isn't poisonous before picking it from the tree, how to roast jackfruit seeds, and score the skin of the fruit so it won't explode on the fire, and how to put a leash on a crab.
Fiction book (1994) -
Serious, man, then you come home for some ackee and swordfish.
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She was tiny, and her eyes were as black and shiny as two ackee seeds; her hair seemed to start right above her eyebrows and float all the way back without end.
Fiction book (1993) -
As a small place, Dominica has not put its stamp on any recipes, the way Jamaica can claim salt fish and ackee or the Dominican Republic chicharrones de pollo.
Academic text (1990) -
With a plethora of plants being brought from far-off lands by the colonizers, it is of little surprise that farming is a big part of life here, and the national fruit is one of the main components of a traditional breakfast, which doubles as the national dish: "Ackee and Saltfish."
Blog text (34) -
He puts his coat on her where she falls and lifts her high in his stiltman's arms, and they go through the field of red ginger, through the red mud of the mountain between the ackee and the maccafat palm, up, up, up into the blue hilltops where the mist covers them.
Fiction book (1994) -
And the memory of her could not be summoned without bringing to mind Uncle McKenzie’s wife Icilda, and the smells of curried goat and ackee and codfish that had always breezed out of her kitchen.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ackee, a bright red fruit, is often served with saltfish in traditional Jamaican dishes.
Synonyms
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A red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds that must be cooked before eating
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A tropical tree from West Africa that has sweet-smelling flowers and edible fruit called ackee
How Ripe
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ackee comes from a West African (Akan) name 'akye' for the same tree and fruit, and the name travelled with the plant to the Caribbean. That's why ackee today means the tropical fruit used in Jamaica's dishes, but remember its seeds are poisonous unless the fruit is fully ripe.