small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches • Syn: jaboticaba, Myrciaria cauliflora • Hypernyms: fruit tree • Member Holonyms: Myrciaria, genus Myrciaria, Myrcia • Part Meronyms: jaboticaba