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pitch apple

noun

a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

• Syn: ↑strangler fig, ↑Clusia rosea, ↑Clusia major

• Hypernyms: ↑strangler, ↑strangler tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Clusia

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noun

Etymology: pitch (I)

: a common tropical American tree (Clusia rosea) that has coarse evergreen leaves, solitary white or rose flowers, and a whitish resinous fruit and that when young often grows over other trees like a vine in such a way as to strangle them — called also strangler fig

Useful english dictionary. 2012.