Meaning
The rose apple — a pale yellow-green, hollow, crisp fruit that smells and tastes faintly of roses. Light and only lightly sweet, with a crunchy texture and a loose seed that rattles inside, plum rose is a nostalgic country and riverbank fruit picked and eaten straight from the tree.
Examples
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Di plum rose smell just like rose.
The rose apple smells just like roses.
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Wi pick plum rose down by di river.
We picked rose apples down by the river.
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Plum rose crunchy an light.
Rose apple is crunchy and light.
Origin
From its rose-like scent; the rose apple (Syzygium jambos). See [[otaheite]], [[custard-apple]].
How it’s used
The rose apple — crisp, faintly rose-scented fruit. See [[otaheite]], [[guinep]].