Definition of Spondias purpurea

1. Noun. Common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit.

Exact synonyms: Jocote, Mombin, Mombin Tree
Terms within: Mombin
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Group relationships: Genus Spondias, Spondias

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spondias Purpurea

Spk1 kinase
Splendore
Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon
Splendour of the Father
Split
Spock
Spock ears
Spockian
Spockish
Spode
Spodoptera exigua
Spodoptera frugiperda
Spokane
Spondias
Spondias mombin
Spondias purpurea (current term)
Spondweni virus
Sporades
Sporanox
Spork
Sporobolus
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Sporobolus poiretii
Sporocystinea
Sporotrichum
Spotsylvania
Sprachgefühl

Literary usage of Spondias purpurea

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Some of them produce very pleasant fruits, among which may be mentioned Spondias purpurea and Spondias lu tea, which are generally called hog-plum in the ..."

2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Some of them produce very pleasant fruits, among which may be mentioned Spondias purpurea and Spondias lútea, which are generally called hog-plum in the ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"The seeds of Semecarpus (marking-nut tree) give an indelible black dye used in marking linen. Spondias purpurea is the so-called Spanish plum of the West ..."

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