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🍇 A tart fruit 🌿 A spiny plant
kitembilla

kitembilla

9.9
A small spiny shrub that grows in India and Sri Lanka and has dark purple fruit
  • noun
  • Indian
translation icon : kitembilla
  • The kitembilla is a small shrub cultivated for its sweet, purple fruit that resembles gooseberries.

Examples

  • The sweet pulp of the kitembilla is sometimes used to make traditional jams and jellies.

  • The kitembilla is prized in Sri Lanka for its uniquely flavored fruit.

  • Farmers in southern India often harvest kitembilla during the late summer season.

  • The kitembilla plant thrives in tropical climates.

  • Have you ever tasted kitembilla fruit?

  • In Sri Lanka, the kitembilla is often enjoyed fresh or used in desserts for its sweet flavor.

  • During the harvest season, local markets in India display fresh kitembilla fruits for sale.

Synonyms

ketembilla
vskitembilla
  • Indian
9.9

A small spiny shrub grown in India and Sri Lanka that produces maroon-purple fruit

is the same but emphasizes the fruit tasting like gooseberries rather than just pulp
ketembilla tree
vskitembilla
  • Indian
9.9

A small spiny shrub that makes sweet purple berries like gooseberries

is defined clearly as a shrub rather than as a tree
kitambilla
vskitembilla
  • Indian
9.9

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

is framed as a shrub with fruit tasting directly like gooseberries
Ceylon gooseberry
vskitembilla
8.0

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

is the botanical description focusing on shrub form and purple pulp
Dovyalis hebecarpa
vskitembilla
  • Specialized
9.9

A small spiny shrub from India and Sri Lanka that produces dark red, tart fruit like a gooseberry

specifies purple color and sweet purple pulp not just flavor

Surface Forms

kitembilla singular
kitembillas plural

Etymology

Kitembilla originally named the small, spiny shrub that bears the purple fruit, from local Sri Lankan and South Indian languages. So kitembilla can also mean the plant itself—the spiny bush that gives the jammy, tart fruit.