KITEMBILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kitembilla mean? 

• KITEMBILLA (noun)
  The noun KITEMBILLA has 2 senses:

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

2. maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves

  Familiarity information: KITEMBILLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KITEMBILLA (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("kitembilla" 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 "kitembilla"):

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

Holonyms ("kitembilla" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla

Hypernyms ("kitembilla" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("kitembilla" is a part of...):

Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla (a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India)