1.
[syn: ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
kitambilla \kitambilla\ n.
1. A small shrubby spiny tree (Dovyalis hebecarpa)
cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple
pulp tasking like gooseberries; it is native to Sri Lanka
and India.
Syn: ketembilla, kitembilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon
gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. A maroon-purple gooseberrylike fruit of India having a
tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves.
Syn: ketembilla, kitembilla.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Dovyalis hebecarpa
n 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, kitembilla,
kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry,
Dovyalis hebecarpa]