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ackees

ackees is the plural of ackee.

Meaning of ackee

Noun

ackee (countable and uncountable, plural ackees)

  1. A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan.
    • The beautiful Akee (Blighia sapida), originally brought from the West Coast of Africa by slave ships, is now a common tree in the West Indies, and I noticed several fine specimens in Belize.1883, Daniel Morris, chapter 7, in The Colony of British Honduras, Its Resources and Prospects, London: Edward Stanford, page 113
  2. The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous.
    • Ackee and saltfish is a traditional Jamaican dish.

Questions about ackees

What is ackees the plural of?
Ackees is the plural of ackee.

Words near ackees in the dictionary

  1. ackawi
  2. Ackawoi
  3. ackchyually
  4. acked
  5. ackee
  6. ackees
  7. ackempucky
  8. acker
  9. Ackerian
  10. Ackerley
  11. Ackerleys

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