CEYLON GOOSEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ceylon gooseberry mean? 

• CEYLON GOOSEBERRY (noun)
  The noun CEYLON GOOSEBERRY has 1 sense:

1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India

  Familiarity information: CEYLON GOOSEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEYLON GOOSEBERRY (noun)

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Meaning:

A small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla

Hypernyms ("Ceylon gooseberry" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "Ceylon gooseberry"):

ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla (maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves)

Holonyms ("Ceylon gooseberry" is a member of...):

Dovyalis; genus Dovyalis (small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka)