miraculous fruit

noun

variants or miraculous berry

1

: either of two tropical African fruits that have a lingering sweetish aftertaste that causes indifferent or acid foods eaten after them to taste sweet

2

: a plant yielding miraculous fruit:

a

: a small shrubby tree (Synsepalum dulcificum) of the family Sapotaceae having a fruit that is a fleshy single-seeded berry

b

: an herb (Thaumatococcus daniellii) of the family Marantaceae whose edible fruit is the jellylike aril surrounding the seeds

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