blade apple

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   small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies

   SynonymsBarbados gooseberry

   Broaderedible fruit

   Part ofBarbados gooseberry

Questions about blade apple

What does blade apple mean?

blade apple means "small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies".

What is another word for blade apple?

Close synonyms include Barbados gooseberry. 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 blade apple a common word?

blade 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.