1. Small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches
   "The jaboticaba's unusual trunk-growing fruits fascinated visitors";
   - jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora
    
2. Tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil
   "Children enjoyed plucking jaboticaba directly from the tree trunk where they grow"

Derived forms: jaboticabas

Type of: edible fruit, fruit tree

Part of: genus Myrciaria, Myrcia, Myrciaria

Encyclopedia: Jaboticaba, Rio Grande do Sul