kangaroo-apple

(kang-ga-ré’ap’1), n. 1. The yellow, egg-shaped berry of Solanum aviculare (S. lacinia tum), which is edible when fully ripe. It is a native of Australia and New Zealand.— 2. The plant which yields this fruit. It isa plant with shrubby stems 6 or 8 feet high, long and narrow or pinnatifid leaves, and cymes in the axils or on the branches.