guiana plum

guiana plum
noun
Usage: usually capitalized G
1. : any of several tropical American shrubs or small trees of the genus Drypetes (family Euphorbiaceae); especially : a shrubby tree (D. lateriflora) whose range extends northward into southern Florida — called also Florida plum
2. : the usually reddish rather dry drupaceous fruit of a Guiana plum

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