BLADE APPLE

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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 ("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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