noun
Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
• Syn: ↑quandong, ↑quandong tree, ↑silver quandong tree, ↑blue fig, ↑Elaeocarpus grandis
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Elaeocarpus, ↑genus Elaeocarpus
• Part Meronyms: ↑silver quandong, ↑quandong, ↑blue fig
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nounUsage: usually capitalized B
: an Australian tree (Elaeocarpus grandis) with hard white timber and edible fruit — called also blue fig
Useful english dictionary. 2012.