balsam apple

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   a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit

   SynonymsMomordica balsamina

   Broadergourd

   Part ofMomordica

Questions about balsam apple

What does balsam apple mean?

balsam apple means "a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit".

What is another word for balsam apple?

Close synonyms include Momordica balsamina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balsam apple a common word?

balsam apple is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.