Well attestedNamed from the place
Key lime
noun · first attested early 20th century
The Florida Keys lime is a Southeast Asian fruit that Spanish ships carried west.
A small, seedy, intensely aromatic lime, and the custard pie made from its juice.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- early 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Florida Keys
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Key lime
The tree reached the Caribbean with Spanish shipping and naturalized in the Keys, where growers farmed it commercially until a hurricane destroyed most of the groves in 1926. Nearly all limes sold under the name today are grown in Mexico and Central America.
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