rose-apple
[f. rose n. + apple n.]
† 1. A kind of apple having rose-coloured flesh.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva §510 Few Fruits are coloured Red within: The Queen-apple is: and another apple, called the Rose-apple. 1693 Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 126 The Rose-Apple extremely resembles the Apis in all its outside. |
2. a. A small tree of the genus Eugenia (esp. E. Jambos, E. malaccensis, and E. aquea), extensively grown in the tropics for its beautiful foliage and fruit. b. The edible, sweet-scented fruit of this tree, used for making preserves, etc.
| 1790 W. Beckford Descr. Acct. Jamaica II. 190 The orange, the rose-apple, the papa..and other productions. 1812 [see jambo c]. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 65 The balsamic odour of the eastern fruits called the Jamrosade and the Rose Apple. 1871 Kingsley At Last xvi, That with leaves like a great myrtle, and bright flesh-coloured fruit, [is] a Malacca-apple, or perhaps a Rose-apple. 1885 A. Brassey The Trades 323 The islands also produce custard-apples, bread-fruit, rose-apples. 1975 I. & A. Mancinelli tr. Bianchini & Corbetta's Fruits of Earth 168 The rose apple is about the size and color of an apricot, with one to three seeds inside. |
3. Austr. The Queensland or sweet plum, Owenia cerasifera.
| 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Pl. 49. |