ackee

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A Jamaican fruit with spongy white or yellow flesh Available fresh or canned Also called akee
A bright red tropical fruit ("blighia sapida") that features a soft, creamy white flesh Captain Bligh brought the fruit from West Africa to Jamaica in 1793 Certain parts of the fruit are toxic when under-ripe
Variant form of akee
{i} evergreen tree native to tropical western Africa (grown in the Caribbean region, Florida and Hawaii); red fruit of the ackee tree shaped like a pear with poisonous seeds and which flesh is edible only when ripe (toxic when unripe or overripe)
red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe