ak·ee also ac·kee 
(ăkē, ə-kē)
(ăkē, ə-kē)n.
1. A tropical western African evergreen tree (Blighia sapida) having leathery red-and-yellow fruits. It is naturalized and cultivated in the tropics and in Florida.
2. The edible, fleshy, ripe aril of this tree, especially popular as a food in Jamaica. The seeds and unripe arils are poisonous.
[Possibly Kru akee or Akan (Twi) aŋkyẽ, wild cashew.]
akee Blighia sapida
- sponge cake
- sponge mushroom
- sponger
- sponge rubber
- spongiform
- spongiform encephalopathy
- spongin
- sponginess
- spongioblast
- spongiocyte
- spongocoel
- spongy
- spongy mesophyll
- sponson
- sponsor
- sponsorial
- sponsorship
- spontaneity
- spontaneous
- spontaneous abortion
- spontaneous combustion
- spontaneous generation
- spontaneously
- spontaneousness
- spontoon