Star apple Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides
Chrysophyllum cainito; caimito.
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(Bot.) , a tropical American tree (Chrysophyllum Cainito ), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of about sixty species, and the natural order (Sapotaceæ ) to which it belongs is called the Star-apple family.
