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Definition of Rose-apple tree

1. Noun. Tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose-apple Tree

Literary usage of Rose-apple tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Investigations Representing the Departments: Greek, Latin, Comparative by University of Chicago (1903)
"When the domestic chaplain saw him do this he reflected: " Surely the king's queen consort comes by way of the rose apple tree and sins with him. ..."

2. Investigations Representing the Departments: Greek, Latin, Comparative by University of Chicago (1903)
"Saluting the tree respectfully by raising his joined hands to his forehead, he said: "Hear thou, О lordly deity who wast born in this rose apple tree; ..."

3. The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Ñāṇamoli (1992)
"He went to the rose-apple tree, after which the Rose-apple Continent of India is called, and he secured a fruit. Then he arrived first and sat down in the ..."

4. A Dictionary of the Hindee Language by John Drew Bate (1875)
"... qv , т. the rose-apple tree (Eugenia Jambu) and its fruit. [at the point of death. ; ftt the point of expiring. — hona, to be , "*• pr n. the chief of ..."

5. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: Or, The Ancient Hindu Doctrine of by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"And on its southern slope is the Rose-Apple tree, from which this land is called the Land of the Rose-Apple. As the sun moves forward, day and night,1 as it ..."

6. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghosa (1921)
"Cunda replied, "Reverend Sir, I will take upon my shoulder a great rose-apple tree, which is the emblem of the Land of the Rose- apple, and I will wave it ..."

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