malaba

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noun

Otaheite apple; Pear shaped fruit with red skin and white flesh. Typically, they contain a single large seed. However, they may occasionally be seedless. The fruit is sweet and is usually eaten raw or used to make drinks.

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apple, cajuil, cashew, french cashew, kwachimelon, love apple, mali apple, otaheite apple, plimrose, plumrose, pomerac, pomme d'armour, pumarosa, titi apple

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19 comments

Imelda Negretti

9 years ago

Pomerac in T'dad & Tobago, Love it!

Jesse Hacksahw

9 years ago

Maybe I am too young to have been exposed to that word because I've always known them as plumrose and not malaba.

Rohan James

8 years ago

Never heard them called malaba either, always plumrose.

Richard John

8 years ago

Never heard it called malaba.

Eva

8 years ago

Plumrose, man!

Anselm

8 years ago

Pomme d'armour in St. Lucia

Plumrose!!!!

7 years ago

I've only know that as plumrose.

Evocati

7 years ago

Yeah, this is and has always been Plumrose. Loving the site though!

StVincentianOd

6 years ago

Malaba =Malay apple

Graham

6 years ago

I myself never heard anyone call it Malaba

Erica Miller

6 years ago

This is Definitely Plumrose

Kathleen W

6 years ago

Primrose, my favorite fruit in the whole world.

Kris

5 years ago

Plum rose! never heard the name malaba in my life..

Andre

5 years ago

Wax apple in English, pomme d'armour in creole

Shak

3 years ago

Favourite thing about going home

Bejue

3 years ago

This is known as Pomerac in Trinidad and Tobago. The dark red ones are always the sweetest. So juicy. This tree always seems to attract woodpeckers in our yard.

VINCYPOWA

2 years ago

In the Vermont Valley where I am from we called it Malaba.

Ralky

2 years ago

In leeward we call them malaba

Tes

11 months ago

Leeward side of vincy its call malaba i found out it name plumrose when i went to live in town.So in vincy it got both names depends on location