bullock's heart

Questions about bullock's heart

What does bullock's heart mean?

bullock's heart means "small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bullock's heart?

Close synonyms include bullock's heart tree, bullock heart, Annona reticulata, Jamaica apple. 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 bullock's heart a common word?

bullock's heart 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.