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BARBADOS GOOSEBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
Synonyms:
Barbados gooseberry; blade apple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("Barbados gooseberry" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("Barbados gooseberry" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
Synonyms:
Barbados-gooseberry vine; Barbados gooseberry; Pereskia aculeata
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Barbados gooseberry" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Meronyms (parts of "Barbados gooseberry"):
Barbados gooseberry; blade apple (small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies)
Holonyms ("Barbados gooseberry" is a member of...):
genus Peireskia; genus Pereskia; Peireskia; Pereskia (genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers)
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