surinam cherry

Questions about surinam cherry

What does surinam cherry mean?

surinam cherry means "tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for surinam cherry?

Close synonyms include barbados cherry, acerola, West Indian cherry, Malpighia glabra, pitanga. 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 surinam cherry a common word?

surinam cherry 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.