seven-year apple

English

Noun

seven-year apple (plural seven-year apples)

1. A rubiaceous shrub (Genipa clusiifolia) growing in the West Indies.
2. Its edible fruit.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seven-year apple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)