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Noun: Spanish lime  spa-nish lIm
  1. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
    - Spanish lime tree, honey berry, mamoncillo, genip, ginep, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus
     
  2. Round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes
    - genip

Type of: edible fruit, fruit tree

Part of: genus Melicocca, genus Melicoccus, Melicocca, Melicoccus

Encyclopedia: Spanish lime