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Definition of Marmalade box
1. Noun. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
Terms within: Genipap, Genipap Fruit
Group relationships: Genus Genipa
Generic synonyms: Genipa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marmalade Box
Literary usage of Marmalade box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Value of Fruits and Nine Hundred by Riley Maria Fletcher Berry (1907)
"... SURINAM AND BARBADOES "CHERRIES," AND marmalade box T THE ROSE APPLE or Eugenia.
Jambos HIS beautiful, dainty fruit is of the same large family of which ..."
2. A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in (1830)
"... the tree is sometimes called the marmalade-tree, and is, in all probability,
the same which Stedman, in his account of Surinam, calls the marmalade box. ..."
3. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"... the tree is sometimes called the marmalade tree, and is, in all probability,
the same which Stedman, in his account of Surinam, calls the marmalade box. ..."
4. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1848)
"The fruit is called the ' marmalade box ;' it is about the size of a large apple,
and is covered with down. At first it is green, but when ripe it becomes ..."
5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1890)
"... or marmalade box. It is about the size of an orange, and has an agreeable flavor.
The juice of the fruit yields a bluish-black dye. called ..."
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