bush apple

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bush apple (plural bush apples)

  1. (Australia) Any of various trees resembling the apple or bearing similar fruit, especially the black apple (Planchonella australis). [from 20th c.]
    • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 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.

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