AKEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does akee mean? 

• AKEE (noun)
  The noun AKEE has 2 senses:

1. widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh

2. red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe

  Familiarity information: AKEE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AKEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

akee; akee tree; Blighia sapida

Hypernyms ("akee" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "akee"):

ackee; akee (red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe)

Holonyms ("akee" is a member of...):

Blighia; genus Blighia (small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ackee; akee

Hypernyms ("akee" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("akee" is a part of...):

akee; akee tree; Blighia sapida (widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh)