noun
1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
• Syn: ↑ketembilla, ↑kitambilla, ↑ketembilla tree, ↑Ceylon gooseberry, ↑Dovyalis hebecarpa
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dovyalis, ↑genus Dovyalis
• Part Meronyms: ↑ketembilla, ↑kitambilla
2. maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
• Syn: ↑ketembilla, ↑kitambilla
• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit
• Part Holonyms: ↑ketembilla, ↑kitambilla, ↑ketembilla tree, ↑Ceylon gooseberry, ↑Dovyalis hebecarpa
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/kit'euhm bil"euh/, n.
a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
Also, kitambilla. Also called Ceylon gooseberry.
[ < Sinhalese kätämbilla]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.