RAMBUTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rambutan mean? 

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

1. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit

2. pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines

  Familiarity information: RAMBUTAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAMBUTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Nephelium lappaceum; rambotan; rambutan; rambutan tree

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

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "rambutan"):

rambotan; rambutan (pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines)

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

genus Nephelium; Nephelium (a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

rambotan; rambutan

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

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

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

Nephelium lappaceum; rambotan; rambutan; rambutan tree (Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit)