A tropical tree native to the Caribbean, also called the Spanish lime, bearing small round fruits with a sweet pulp.
From Spanish 'genipa' or indigenous Caribbean languages. The word traveled with the fruit through colonial trade routes and botanical naming.
The ginep is a perfectly delicious fruit most English speakers have never heard of—it shows how the English language selectively 'forgets' non-European foods, keeping terms for apples but losing ginep!
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