| Barbados cherry n. In both senses also called acerola. 1. A tropical American evergreen shrub (Malpighia glabra) having red or rose flowers in umbels and red cherrylike edible fruits. 2. The fruit of this plant. |
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| Noun | 1. |  barbados cherry - tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherriesacerola, barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, surinam cherry - acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C dicot, dicotyledon, exogen, magnoliopsid - flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside |
| 2. |  barbados cherry - acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin Cberry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves acerola, barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra, Surinam cherry, West Indian cherry - tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries |
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