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🍇 A tart fruit 🌿 A spiny plant
kitembilla

kitembilla

9.9
A dark purple fruit like a small gooseberry that tastes tart and sweet
  • noun
  • Indian
translation icon : kitembilla
  • The jam made from kitembilla has a distinctive tart-sweet flavor.

Examples

  • She added diced kitembilla to the fruit salad for extra color and tang.

  • I bought some fresh kitembilla at the market.

  • Farmers in southern India harvest kitembilla during the rainy season.

  • Have you ever tasted kitembilla jam?

  • Farmers in southern India harvest kitembilla during the rainy season.

  • She added diced kitembilla to the fruit salad for extra color and tang.

  • The jam made from kitembilla has a distinctive tart-sweet flavor.

Synonyms

kitambilla
vskitembilla
  • Indian
9.9

A dark purple fruit from India with tart and sweet purple pulp that people use in preserves

is identical in meaning but differs only in spelling
ketembilla
vskitembilla
  • Indian
9.9

A maroon-purple fruit like a gooseberry with tart-sweet pulp used for jams

is less specific about preserve use and more general
Ceylon gooseberry
vskitembilla
8.0

A small spiny tree from Sri Lanka and India that has purple fruit with sweet, tart flesh

focuses on the fruit rather than the producing tree

Surface Forms

kitembilla singular
kitembillas plural

Etymology

Kitembilla comes from local names in Sri Lanka and southern India for a small maroon-purple fruit similar to a 'gooseberry'. So when you see kitembilla in a recipe it means the tart-sweet purple fruit often used for jams and salads.