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CEYLON GOOSEBERRY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
Synonyms:
Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ceylon gooseberry" 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 "Ceylon gooseberry"):
ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla (maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves)
Holonyms ("Ceylon gooseberry" is a member of...):
Dovyalis; genus Dovyalis (small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka)
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