kitembilla

Noun

• maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves

• a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ketembilla , kitambilla , ketembilla tree , Ceylon gooseberry , Dovyalis hebecarpa