Meanings
- Jamaicauncountablebitter melon, Momordica charantia, from which a medicinal tea is made.
I told him to drink cerasee tea. That's what the village elders had always prescribed for colitis.
2011, Ivelyn Harris, Healing Herbs of Jamaica, page 282 more examples
Cundeamor is derived from the Spanish name for the fruit of the Cerasee (Momordica Charantia) possessing a peculiar warted appearance.
1882, Daniel Morris, Cacao: How to Grow and how to Cure it, page 13She told me how easy it was to tell cerasee, the tiny pale yellow flowers on the vine and the small bright-orange fruits, and the seeds blood-red.
2007, Jacqueline Bishop, The River's Song: A Nove, page 161
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