spanish lime

Questions about spanish lime

What does spanish lime mean?

spanish lime means "tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spanish lime?

Close synonyms include Spanish lime tree, honey berry, mamoncillo, genip, ginep. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spanish lime a common word?

spanish lime is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.