bush apple

noun

Any of various trees resembling the apple or bearing similar fruit, especially the black apple (Planchonella australis).

First used 20th c.
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Meanings

nounbush apple (plural bush apples)

plural bush apples

  1. AustraliaAny of various trees resembling the apple or bearing similar fruit, especially the black apple (Planchonella australis).First known use 20th c.

    Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.

    2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51
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