dovyalis hebecarpa

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   a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India

   Synonymsketembillakitembillakitambillaketembilla treeCeylon gooseberry

   Broadertree

   Part ofDovyalis

   Partsketembilla

Questions about dovyalis hebecarpa

What does dovyalis hebecarpa mean?

dovyalis hebecarpa means "a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India".

What is another word for dovyalis hebecarpa?

Close synonyms include ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon 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 dovyalis hebecarpa a common word?

dovyalis hebecarpa 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.