akee

akee
akee or ack·ee 'ak-.ē, a-'kē n the fruit of a tree (Blighia sapida of the family Sapindaceae) native to tropical West Africa but grown in the Caribbean area, Florida, and Hawaii for its white or yellowish fleshy aril which is edible when ripe but is poisonous when immature or overripe and that has a toxic pink raphe attaching the aril to the seed also the tree

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(ăkґee) 1. Blighia sapida. 2. the fruit of B. sapida; its whitish, ripe aril is cooked and consumed as a delicacy in the West Indies. The uncooked fruit and aril contain the toxic amino acids hypoglycin A and B, and ingestion without cooking causes Jamaican vomiting sickness. Called also ackee.

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