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🍈 A tropical fruit 🌳 A tropical tree
genip

genip

9.9
A small round tropical fruit with green skin and sweet, juicy flesh
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : genipa
  • The sweet flesh of the genip makes it a popular summertime treat in the Caribbean.

Examples

  • We bought a bag of fresh genip from a street vendor in Jamaica.

  • After peeling the skin, she popped the juicy genip into her mouth.

  • I love eating genip during the summer.

  • Have you ever tasted a genip?

  • The sweet flesh of the genip makes it a popular summertime treat in the Caribbean.

  • We bought a bag of fresh genip from a street vendor in Jamaica.

  • After peeling the skin, she popped the juicy genip into her mouth.

Synonyms

Spanish lime
vsgenip
  • US
7.9

A small green fruit with thin skin and sweet juicy pulp you eat like a grape

is the same fruit but named with a Caribbean local term
Melicocca bijugatus
vsgenip
  • Specialized
9.9

A tropical tree that makes small sweet green fruits people eat

focuses on the tree rather than the fruit itself
ginep
vsgenip
  • US
9.9

A tropical American tree that has small sweet green fruits

refers to the edible fruit rather than the plant or tree

Surface Forms

genip singular
genips plural

Etymology

Genip comes from a local Caribbean and South American name for the fruit, later used in Spanish and Portuguese as 'jenipapo'. So, genip is the same name people used for this small, round, sweet fruit that you peel and eat like a grape.