ketembilla tree

Questions about ketembilla tree

What does ketembilla tree mean?

ketembilla tree 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 ketembilla tree?

Close synonyms include ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa. 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 ketembilla tree a common word?

ketembilla tree 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.