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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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