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DOVYALIS CAFFRA

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Meaning:

Vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits

Synonyms:

Dovyalis caffra; kei apple; kei apple bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Dovyalis caffra" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Dovyalis caffra"):

kai apple (South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves)

Holonyms ("Dovyalis caffra" is a member of...):

Dovyalis; genus Dovyalis (small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka)

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