coco plum

or co·co·plum C0449400 (kō′kō-plŭm′)n.1. A tropical American evergreen shrub or small tree (Chrysobalanus icaco) having sweet pink to purple fruit used to make jellies and preserves.2. The fruit of this plant.

[Alteration of Spanish icaco, from Arawak ikaku.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	coco plum - small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruitChrysobalanus icaco, coco plum tree, cocoa plum, icacococo plum, cocoa plum, icaco - plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical AmericanChrysobalanus, genus Chrysobalanus - coco plumsfruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
	2.	coco plum - plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical Americancocoa plum, icacoedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshChrysobalanus icaco, coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum, icaco - small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit

Coco Plum

or golden plum (Chrysobalanus icaco), a shrub or small tree (up to 9 m high) of the family Chrysobalanaceae. The fruits are pinkish white, bright red, or almost black in color and tartly sweet and somewhat tangy. Their white flesh grows compactly around an elongated seed; the fruits resemble a large plum.

The coco plum grows wild along the seacoast of tropical America. It is cultivated in the tropics of America and Africa. The fruits are used as food; the flesh as a black dye; an edible oil is obtained from the seeds.

REFERENCE

Siniagin, I. I. Tropicheskoe zemledelie.Moscow, 1968.

coco plum

noun

Synonyms for coco plum

noun small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit

Synonyms

Chrysobalanus icaco
coco plum tree
cocoa plum
icaco

Related Words

coco plum
cocoa plum
icaco
Chrysobalanus
genus Chrysobalanus
fruit tree

noun plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves

Synonyms

cocoa plum
icaco

Related Words

edible fruit
Chrysobalanus icaco
coco plum
coco plum tree
cocoa plum
icaco