| jamaica | One of the West India is islands. Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. Jamaica pepper, allspice. <botany> Jamaica rose, a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis), with showy pink flowers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Jamaican vomiting sickness | An acute and frequently fatal vomiting disease associated with central nervous system symptoms and marked hypoglycaemia, caused by eating unripe ackee fruit of Blighia spaida, a tree common in Jamaica. Synonym: Jamaican vomiting sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jamaicine | <chemistry> An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam. Synonym: jamacina. Origin: From Jamaica. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| jamais vu | From the French, meaning never seen, the illusion that the familiar does not seem familiar, the opposite of the feeling of deja vu. (12 Dec 1998) |