barbados cherry

Questions about barbados cherry

What does barbados cherry mean?

barbados cherry means "tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for barbados cherry?

Close synonyms include acerola, Surinam cherry, West Indian cherry, Malpighia glabra, acerola. 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 barbados cherry a common word?

barbados cherry 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.