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PITCH APPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pitch apple mean?
• PITCH APPLE (noun)
The noun PITCH APPLE has 1 sense:
1. a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
Familiarity information: PITCH APPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig
Hypernyms ("pitch apple" is a kind of...):
strangler; strangler tree (an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree)
Holonyms ("pitch apple" is a member of...):
genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)
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