jennipapah

Updated: May 13, 2025

This grows both in the East and West Indies, where I have seen and eaten of it. The jennipah or jennipapah is a sort of fruit of the calabash or gourd kind. It is about the bigness of a duck-egg, and somewhat of an oval shape; and is of a grey colour.

William Dampier - A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699