icaco
- noun
- /ɪˈkɑːkoʊ/
- Specialized
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icaco
- The icaco tree is known for its delicious fruit.
Examples
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The icaco is often cultivated for its sweet, plumlike fruit.
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Several birds were seen perching in the icaco near the riverbank.
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She collected icacos to make a traditional jelly.
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Have you ever tasted an icaco?
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The icaco tree yields small fruits that are sweet and ideal for making jams.
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She picked several ripe icacos from the tree for a dessert recipe.
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In the tropics, the harvest of icaco fruits attracts many local birds.
Synonyms
A small tropical tree that makes edible fruit like small plums
A small tropical tree that grows edible plum-like fruit
A small tropical tree that makes sweet fruit like plums near the coast
A tropical American shrub or small tree with edible fruit like a plum used in jams and desserts
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Icaco came into Spanish and then English from a native Caribbean language called Taíno, where it named a small tree. So icaco today means the tree that produces the sweet, plum-like fruit.
