A small tropical American fruit tree related to the star apple, bearing small edible fruits.
Spanish diminutive form of 'caimito' (star apple), using the diminutive suffix '-illo' to indicate a smaller version or related plant.
The caimitillo sits in an interesting linguistic position—it's a diminutive of caimito, which itself may derive from indigenous Caribbean languages, showing how Spanish colonialism layered European grammar onto American plants!
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