genipap
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese genipapo, jenipapo, from Old Tupi îanypaba.
The Tupi meaning of the word is variously given as yandi-pawa or yandi-pab "fruit for painting",[1] yandi-ibá-pab "fruit of the extremities for painting",[2] and without citation or explanation, "breast of an old woman".[3]
Noun
[edit]genipap (plural genipaps)
- The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae.
- The fruit of this tree, oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Antonio Pamies, Lei Chunyi, Margaret Craig (2015) “" Fruits are Results": On the Interaction between Universal Archi-Metaphors, Ethno-Specific Culturemes and Phraseology”, in Journal of Social Sciences, volume 11, number 3, Science Publications, , →ISSN
- ^ Caspar Barlaeus (1974) Cláudio Brandão and Mário G. Ferri, editors, História dos feitos recentemente praticados durante oito anos no Brasil, →OCLC, page 385, column 2
- ^ Lothar Staeck (2022) Fascination Amazon River: Its People, Its Animals, Its Plants, Springer Nature, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65