KITEMBILLA
Dictionary entry overview: What does kitembilla mean?
• KITEMBILLA (noun)
The noun KITEMBILLA has 2 senses:
1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
2. maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
Familiarity information: KITEMBILLA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• KITEMBILLA (noun)
Meaning:
A small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla
Hypernyms ("kitembilla" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (parts of "kitembilla"):
ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla (maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves)
Holonyms ("kitembilla" is a member of...):
Dovyalis; genus Dovyalis (small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka)
Meaning:
Maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla
Hypernyms ("kitembilla" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("kitembilla" is a part of...):
Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla (a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India)
