sour plum

noun

1

: emu apple

2

: any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Ximenia

especially : a tall much-branched often spiny shrub (X. caffra) of the northern Transvaal with greenish flowers in axillary clusters followed by orange-red to scarlet fruits

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