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Definition of Bell apple
1. Noun. The edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle.
Generic synonyms: Passion Fruit
Group relationships: Jamaica Honeysuckle, Passiflora Laurifolia, Yellow Granadilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell Apple
Literary usage of Bell apple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publication by Field Museum of Natural History (1902)
"... color, size and shape. It is rare, however, and its qualities little known,
though I have eaten it and found it excellent. The bell-apple ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"This, as well as the water-lemon, bell-apple, or honeysuckle, as it is named,
being parasitical plants, are easily formed into cooling arbours, ..."
3. Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a Winter in the West by Joseph John Gurney, Henry Clay (1840)
"... bell-apple, pomme de Cythere, star-apple, and above all the mango. This last,
when of an inferior kind, has the taste of turpentine ; but the better ..."
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