菠萝蜜 (bōluómì) · jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Measure Word

一个菠萝蜜 gè

Meanings

1 jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

About the ingredient

A huge fruit with a green, knobbly rind, holding many golden-yellow pods with a sweet taste of banana and pineapple. Sticky latex makes it messy to cut; the big seeds are boiled or roasted and eaten.

Also called 波罗蜜、木波罗、大树菠萝

Characters

菠

bō

used in plant names (spinach, pineapple)

萝

luó

trailing plant; radish

蜜

mì

honey, sweet

Examples

HSK 7-9

海南盛产菠萝蜜。

Hǎinán shèngchǎn bōluómì.

Hainan produces lots of jackfruit.

HSK 7-9

菠萝蜜的果肉很甜。

Bōluómì de guǒròu hěn tián.

Jackfruit flesh is very sweet.

Tips

mistakes

Don't confuse 菠萝蜜 (jackfruit, large spiky tropical fruit) with 菠萝 (pineapple). Jackfruit is the world's largest tree-borne fruit, common in southern China and Southeast Asia.