Barbados gooseberry

Barbados gooseberry
1. Also called lemon vine. a treelike cactus, Pereskia aculeata, of tropical America, characterized by broad, elliptical leaves and spiny stems bearing a yellow, edible fruit.
2. the fruit itself. Also called blade apple.
[1750-60]

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