rose apple
- noun
- /roʊz ˈæpəl/
- US
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manzana rosa
- She tasted the sweet, floral flavor of a freshly picked rose apple.
Examples
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The rose apple thrives in warm climates and is popular in tropical gardens.
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Farmers in Southeast Asia often sell rose apples alongside other exotic fruits at markets.
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I picked a fresh rose apple from the tree.
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The rose apples in this market are exceptionally sweet.
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Farmers in Southeast Asia often sell rose apples alongside other exotic fruits at markets.
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She tasted the sweet, floral flavor of a freshly picked rose apple.
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The rose apple thrives in warm climates and is popular in tropical gardens.
Synonyms
A tropical tree with round, rose-scented fruit you can eat
A tropical tree that produces edible fruit like a rose apple
A tropical tree that produces sweet, fragrant fruit often eaten fresh
A tropical tree from Southeast Asia that people grow for fruit you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'rose apple' is a straightforward noun-noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'rose' and 'apple' can infer it denotes a type of apple-like fruit associated with roses (e.g., fragrant or rose-like). While the exact botanical identity (Syzygium) is specialist knowledge, the basic referent — a kind of fruit — follows transparent, cross-linguistic compounding patterns and is therefore recoverable from the constituents.
Etymology
The noun rose apple gets its name because the tree's fruit looks like a small apple and smells faintly of rose. That clear image, a flower-scented apple on a branch, is why the word refers to the tree and its 'fruit'.
