jamaica : Idioms & Phrases
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capital of jamaica
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noun capital and largest city of Jamaica
Kingston; Jamaican capital.
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jamaica apple
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noun large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp
bullock's heart.
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jamaica bayberry
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noun West Indian tree; source of bay rum
Pimenta acris; bay-rum tree; bayberry; wild cinnamon.
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jamaica caper tree
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noun shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
caper tree; Capparis cynophallophora.
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jamaica dogwood
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noun small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons
Piscidia piscipula; Piscidia erythrina; fish fuddle.
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Jamaica ginger
- a variety of ginger, called also
white ginger , prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately.
Webster 1913
jamaica honeysuckle
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noun West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit
yellow granadilla; Passiflora laurifolia.
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Jamaica pepper
- allspice.
Webster 1913
jamaica quassia
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noun similar to the extract from Quassia amara
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noun West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
Picrasma excelsum; bitterwood; Picrasma excelsa.
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Jamaica rose
(Bot.) , a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis ), with showy pink flowers.
Webster 1913
jamaica rum
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noun heavy pungent rum from Jamaica
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jamaica shorts
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noun short pants that end at the knee
Bermuda shorts.
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jamaica sorrel
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noun East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
sorrel; roselle; red sorrel; rozelle; Hibiscus sabdariffa.