Definition of "jocote" []

• Mombin (noun)

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• "No party thrown by the family was complete without Sanchito's contribution; a clown, a toucan, a giant carrot filled with sweets and sugar cane, jocote plums and oranges, and adorned tastefully with cut paper and rope hair."
• "Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis report that farmers and families in Central America actually have saved genetic variation in the jocote (ho-CO-tay), Spondias purpurea, a small tree that bears fruit similar to a tiny mango."
• "All this was affirmed with the greatest gravity, while a dozen fat fowls were distinctly visible through the open doorway, perched, for the night, among the bare limbs of the _jocote_ trees in the court-yard."