rose apple

Questions about rose apple

What does rose apple mean?

rose apple means "tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for rose apple?

Close synonyms include rose-apple tree, jambosa, Eugenia jambos. 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 rose apple a common word?

rose apple is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.