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BLADE APPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blade apple mean?
• BLADE APPLE (noun)
The noun BLADE APPLE has 1 sense:
1. small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
Familiarity information: BLADE APPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
Barbados gooseberry; blade apple
Hypernyms ("blade apple" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("blade apple" is a part of...):
Barbados-gooseberry vine; Barbados gooseberry; Pereskia aculeata (West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits)
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