🌳 A tropical tree 🥭 A tropical fruit

yellow mombin

9.8

A small yellow oval fruit eaten fresh or made into jam and drinks

noun

: mombin amarillo

She made a delicious jam using ripe yellow mombin from her garden.

Examples

The market had a basket full of fresh yellow mombin for sale.
Have you ever tried yellow mombins in a smoothie?
Many birds are attracted to the sweet flesh of the yellow mombin.
I love to eat yellow mombin fresh from the tree.
She made a delicious jam using ripe yellow mombin from her garden.
Many birds are attracted to the sweet flesh of the yellow mombin.
The market had a basket full of fresh yellow mombin for sale.

Synonyms

mombin

vsyellow mombin

9.9

A tropical tree or its small edible fruit, like a plum

is a specific small yellow oval fruit native to the Americas

hog plum

vsyellow mombin

8.8

A small yellow or red fruit with a sour taste

is a small yellow oval fruit used for jams and drinks not sour

How Common

common fig

3.1

commercial

56 3.2

yellow mombin

9.8

local produce

3 2.2

rare

582 4.1

Surface Forms

yellow mombin singular

yellow mombins plural

Morphology

yellow + mombin

The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'yellow' (a color) modifying 'mombin' (a tropical fruit/tree), so the meaning of a yellow variety of mombin is directly derivable from the parts. This simple descriptive pattern (color + noun) is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Yellow mombin may come from a native word mombin for a small oval fruit, with yellow showing its colour. That's why people use the name for the 'fruit' itself.