cerasee
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cerasee (uncountable)
- (Jamaica) bitter melon, Momordica charantia, from which a medicinal tea is made.
- 1882, Daniel Morris, Cacao: How to Grow and how to Cure it, page 13:
- Cundeamor is derived from the Spanish name for the fruit of the Cerasee (Momordica Charantia) possessing a peculiar warted appearance.
- 2007, Jacqueline Bishop, The River's Song: A Nove, page 161:
- She told me how easy it was to tell cerasee, the tiny pale yellow flowers on the vine and the small bright-orange fruits, and the seeds blood-red.
- 2011, Ivelyn Harris, Healing Herbs of Jamaica, page 28:
- I told him to drink cerasee tea. That's what the village elders had always prescribed for colitis.
Jamaican Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cerasee
- bitter melon, cerasee
- Mi bwile cerasee bush and medina.
- I boil cerasee and medina herb.
- 2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat (in English), →ISBN:
- “"Yu waahn dis mint or yu waahn cerasee?" […] ”
- Would you like mint tea or bitter melon? […]
Further reading[edit]
- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 145