sea apple

English

Alternative forms

• sea-apple

Noun

sea apple (plural sea apples)

1. A round, colourful sea cucumber of the genera Paracucumaria and Paracolochirus, found primarily in Indo-Pacific waters.
2. (obsolete) A sea urchin.
3. The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria plukenetii ⇒ ) Manicaria saccifera, often found floating in the sea.
   • 1864, August Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands:

     Sea-apple: Manicaria Pluketielii.

4. A troolie palm; any member of the species Syzygium grande of trees, that can reach 30 m, found along the coastal mountains of Southeast Asia or its fruit.

References

• “sea-apple”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.