Meanings
plural jaboticabas · alternative jabuticaba
- Its fruit, purplish-black with a white pulp, which can be eaten raw or used in jellies and drinks.
If you don't have jaboticabas, use red grapes, but make sure they are an old-fashioned seedy, intensely flavoured variety.
2010, Clare Richards, Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare's Kitchen, Wet Season Press, →ISBN, page 183
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsmall evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Tupiîaboti
- Old Tupikaba
- Old Tupiîabutikaba
- Brazilian Portuguesejabuticaba
- Englishjaboticaba
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jaboticaba (also spelt jabuticaba), from Old Tupi îabutikaba (“jaboticaba fruit”, literally “jabuti fat”).
More words from Brazilian Portuguese, Old Tupi
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 嘉寶果 /嘉宝果, 擬愛神木 /拟爱神木
- 嘉寶果 /嘉宝果 (jiābǎoguǒ)Myrciaria cauliflora
- 擬愛神木 /拟爱神木 (nǐ'àishénmù)Myrciaria cauliflora
- 樹葡萄 /树葡萄 (shùpútáo)Myrciaria cauliflora
- 木葡萄 (mùpútáo)Myrciaria cauliflora
Finnish brasilianrypälemyrtti
- brasilianrypälemyrttiMyrciaria cauliflora
Japanese ジャボチカバ
- ジャボチカバ (jabochikaba)Myrciaria cauliflora
Portuguese jabuticaba
- jabuticabaMyrciaria cauliflora
Cite this entry
jaboticaba. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jaboticaba
“jaboticaba.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jaboticaba. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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