kei apple

noun

vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits

• Syn: ↑kei apple bush, ↑Dovyalis caffra

• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush

• Member Holonyms: ↑Dovyalis, ↑genus Dovyalis

• Part Meronyms: ↑kai apple

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\\ˈkā-, ˈkī-, ˈkəi-\ noun

Usage: usually capitalized K

Etymology: from Great Kei river, Cape Province, Union of South Africa

1. : the edible fruit of a southern African shrub (Dovyalis caffra) of the family Flacourtiaceae that is shaped like a small apple and is used for pickles and preserves

2. : the shrub that bears the Kei apple

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Kei apple «ky»,

1. a bushy, thorny tree native to South Africa that bears yellow fruit resembling small apples.

2. the fruit of this tree, used for jam and jelly.

╂[< the Kei river, in South Africa]