Definition of Jaboticaba

1.Noun. Small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.

Literary usage of Jaboticaba

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)"One of these, the jaboticaba, was described in the July, 1914, issue of the
JOURNAL OF HEREDITY. The other, which is the subject of this article, ..."

2.Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut by Wilson Popenoe (1920)"The name jaboticaba, without any qualifying word, is considered to be applied
... The closely allied M. jaboticaba is known as jaboticaba de Sao Paulo, ..."

3.The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)"jaboticaba. This name is applied in southeastern Brazil to the fruits of several
species of Myrciaria, notably M. cauliflora, and M. jaboticaba, ..."

5.The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)"On the limbs and twigs of Eugenia jaboticaba. ... In speaking of C. jaboticaba,
Ihr., Prof. Cockerell says: '• Dr. Noack has also sent me some specimens in ..."

6.Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1922)"The jaboticaba grows wild in southeastern Brazil, and is also cultivated to a
greater ... For previous introduction, see SPI No. 45750. 51267. " jaboticaba ..."

7.Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)"Tin- flavour is lost when the jaboticaba is brought to market; the proper thing
is to eat it off the trunk ; a tree may be hired at Si" Paulo for 10§000 per ..."