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    KETEMBILLA TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 Indiaplay

    Synonyms:

    Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("ketembilla tree" 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 "ketembilla tree"):

    ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla (maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves)

    Holonyms ("ketembilla tree" is a member of...):

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

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