naranjilla

1. 1.

   small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges

   SynonymsSolanum quitoense

   Broadershrub

   Part ofSolanum

Other forms of naranjilla

plural

naranjillas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about naranjilla

What does naranjilla mean?

naranjilla means "small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges".

How many syllables are in naranjilla?

naranjilla has 4 syllables: na-ran-jil-la. The stress falls on "ran".

What is another word for naranjilla?

Close synonyms include Solanum quitoense. 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 naranjilla a common word?

naranjilla 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.