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Definition of Kangaroo apple
1. Noun. Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit.
Definition of Kangaroo apple
1. Noun. The fruit of ''Solanum aviculare'' or ''Solanum vescum''; the plants bearing such fruit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kangaroo Apple
Literary usage of Kangaroo apple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"kangaroo apple, a species of Solanum (qv) (<S. facilitation), with a somewhat
shrubby succulent stem, smooth pinnatifid or entire ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"133 : ' Solarium laciniatum, the kangaroo- apple, resembling the apple of a
potato ; when so ripe as to split, it has a mealy sub-acid taste." 1846. ..."
3. The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"... Kangaroo. had been described by Le Brun in 1711. It ¡a of a grayish- brown,
the fur long and soft. Kangaroo' Apple, a species of Solanum, ..."
4. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"kangaroo apple, a species of ... New Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania, in which
latter countries its fruit is called kangaroo apple, anil is used as food. ..."
5. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"kangaroo apple, a species of Solanum (qv) (S. ... and Tasmania, in which latter
countries its fruit is called kangaroo apple, and is used as food. ..."
6. A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies by James Backhouse (1843)
"kangaroo apple. This is a shrub growing from four to six feet high, ...
The Kangaroo-apple flourishes best near the coast, but grows on the Derwent, ..."
7. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"kangaroo apple, a species of Solanum (qv) ... New Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania,
in which latter countries its fruit is called kangaroo apple, ..."
8. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"It is the only known bird having large wings which does not use them for flight.
kangaroo apple, a species of Solanum (qv), ..."
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