chenet
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An ornamental metal stand or andiron, often made of gilt bronze and used in pairs on a hearth to support burning logs in a fireplace.
"The antique marble mantelpiece was complemented by a pair of eighteenth-century gilt-bronze chenets."
The small, round, green-skinned edible fruit of the tropical tree Melicoccus bijugatus (also known as the mamoncillo, quenepa, or Spanish lime), native to northern South America and widely cultivated in the Caribbean, having a translucent, tangy-sweet salmon-colored pulp surrounding a large seed.
"Street vendors in Trinidad sell bunches of fresh chenets throughout the summer harvest season."
The tropical fruit tree Melicoccus bijugatus of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), native to northern South America and cultivated across the Caribbean for its clusters of green-skinned fruit.
"The tall chenet in the courtyard provided ample shade and abundant clusters of fruit every July."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In its decorative arts sense, borrowed from French chenet, an alteration of Old French chienet ('little dog', a diminutive of chien, 'dog'), because the ornamental upright posts of early fireplace andirons were frequently cast in the shape of dog heads. In its Caribbean botanical sense, derived from Trinidadian French Creole chènette, probably from regional French chênette ('little oak') in reference to the tree's foliage.
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