Surinam cherry
- noun
- /ˈsʊrɪnæm ˈʧɛri/
:
cereza de Surinam
- The Surinam cherry is prized for its tangy, sweet fruit in tropical gardens.
Examples
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She planted a Surinam cherry bush in her backyard for its ornamental appeal and delicious harvest.
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Many people in Florida make jam from the ripe Surinam cherries each spring.
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I picked a Surinam cherry from the tree.
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The Surinam cherries are ripe and ready to eat.
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Many people in Florida make jam from the ripe Surinam cherries each spring.
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The Surinam cherry is prized for its tangy, sweet fruit in tropical gardens.
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She planted a Surinam cherry bush in her backyard for its ornamental appeal and delicious harvest.
Synonyms
A tropical Brazilian plant with red or orange fruit often used for jam
A Brazilian tree with small red fruit you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Surinam + cherry
This is a simple modifier+noun composition where 'Surinam' (a place/origin) specifies a type of 'cherry', so a learner who knows both constituents will infer it denotes a variety of cherry from Surinam. While botanical particularities (ribbed, tart) are extra lexical knowledge, the basic meaning 'a kind of cherry/fruit from Surinam' is directly derivable and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Surinam cherry comes from the country Surinam in South America, where the shrub grows, and its small red fruits look like little cherries. So today Surinam cherry means 'a small, tart, cherry-like fruit'.
