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most likely etymology of the primary common name for the fruit, the kaffir lime, is through the Kaffirs, an ethnic group in Sri Lanka partly descended from enslaved Bantu.

The earliest known reference, under the alternative spelling "caffre", is in the Emanuel Bonavia text The Cultivated Oranges, Lemons Etc. of India and Ceylon (1888), which notes:

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