Meaning & use
ginep
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A small, green, tropical fruit with a tart, juicy pulp, native to the Caribbean and parts of Latin America.
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Vendors sold bunches of ginep along the roadside during the summer harvest.
She cracked open a ginep and sucked the sweet-tart flesh from the seed.
A note on using this word
Also spelled "genip" or "guinep," the fruit comes from the tree Melicoccus bijugatus and is popular as a roadside snack across the Caribbean.
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