bush apple
English
Noun
bush apple (plural bush apples)
- (Australia) Any of various trees resembling the apple or bearing similar fruit, especially the black apple (Pouteria australis). [from 20th c.]
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, p. 51:
- 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, p. 51:
References
- bush apple at OneLook Dictionary Search