snake fruit

English
Snake fruit and tree (Salacca zalacca)

Etymology

From its scaly reddish skin.

Noun

snake fruit (usually uncountable, plural snake fruits)

  1. (informal) The salak fruit (Salacca zalacca), which grows on a species of palm tree native to Indonesia.

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