1. A small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
   "The ketembilla's thorny branches protected its sweet fruit";
   - kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa
    
2. Maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
   "The ketembilla jam added an exotic touch to the morning toast";
   - kitembilla, kitambilla

Derived forms: ketembillas

Type of: edible fruit, tree

Part of: Dovyalis, genus Dovyalis

Encyclopedia: Ketembilla