PITCH APPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitch apple mean? 

• PITCH APPLE (noun)
  The noun PITCH APPLE has 1 sense:

1. a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

  Familiarity information: PITCH APPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITCH APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig

Hypernyms ("pitch apple" is a kind of...):

strangler; strangler tree (an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree)

Holonyms ("pitch apple" is a member of...):

genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)