a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
