scrub cherry

noun

: a small to medium-sized Australian tree (Syzygium australe synonym Eugenia australe) closely related to the brush cherry that has white flowers and round to oval cherrylike red fruit

called also brush cherry, lillypilly, rose apple

Word History

First Known Use

1889, in the meaning defined above

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