capulin

Meaning

Noun

• The Mexican cherry (Prunus serotina subsp. capuli (subspecies), once Prunus capollin (species)) and Prunus capuli (species), that yields a sap used in native remedies and has edible cherries of which the kernels of the pits furnish a flour.
• A tropical American tree (Trema micrantha (species)), the bark of which yields a strong fiber
• A groundcherry (any of most species of Physalis).
• A Mexican timber tree (Condalia obovata (species)) whose hard wood furnishes a blue dye.
• A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura, sole species of Muntingia (genus)).

Origin

• From Spanish capulín, from Classical Nahuatl capolin.