snake fruit

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English[edit]

Snake fruit and tree (Salacca zalacca)

Etymology[edit]

From its scaly reddish skin.

Noun[edit]

snake fruit (usually uncountable, plural snake fruits)

  1. (informal) The salak fruit (Salacca zalacca), which grows on a species of palm tree native to Indonesia.

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