star apple

1. 1.

   evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides

   SynonymscaimitoChrysophyllum cainito

   Broaderfruit tree

   Part ofChrysophyllum

Questions about star apple

What does star apple mean?

star apple means "evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides".

What is another word for star apple?

Close synonyms include caimito, Chrysophyllum cainito. 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 star apple a common word?

star apple 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.