malpighia glabra

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   tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries

   Synonymsbarbados cherryacerolaSurinam cherryWest Indian cherry

   Broaderdicot

   Partsacerola

Questions about malpighia glabra

What does malpighia glabra mean?

malpighia glabra means "tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries".

What is another word for malpighia glabra?

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

malpighia glabra 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.