kangaroo apple

noun

1

: an edible yellow egg-shaped fruit of Australia and New Zealand that has a mealy subacid pulp

2

: a shrubby or herbaceous perennial plant (Solanum aviculare) that is sometimes cultivated in warm regions for its racemes of purple flowers and for the kangaroo apples that it bears

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