Dingaan’s apricot, noun phrase

/ˌdɪŋɡɑːnz ˈeɪprɪkɒt/
Forms:
Also Dingaan apricot, Dingan’s apricot.
Origin:
Named for Dingane, a Zulu king who reigned from 1829 to 1840.
Kei apple, see Kei sense 1. Also attributive.
1853, 1876 [see Kei apple Kei sense 1].
1891 R. Russell Natal 31The Dingaan apricot, or Kaw apple is the fruit of a species of ebony tree.
1897 J.P. Fitzpatrick Outspan 106Heron had decided to outspan..under a big Dingaan apricot-tree.
1921 J.P. Fitzpatrick Letter. (Fitzpatrick Papers, N.E.L.M. A/LC III 1050/7)I wrote to ask if you could identify and get the seed of a wild fruit which you used to call ‘Dingaan’s Apricot’...It was by far the best wild fruit I have ever found in the country.
1966 C.A. Smith Common Names 199Dingaan’s apricot, Dovyalis caffra...The vernacular name is derived from the resemblance of the fruit to that of an apricot.
1972 M.R. Levyns in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. VI. 320The almost round, bright yellow fruit (in Natal sometimes called ‘Dingaan’s apricot’) is about 25mm in diameter and may be eaten fresh or used for making jam or jelly.
1987 [see wild apricot wild sense a].
Kei apple, see Kei sense 1. Also attributive.
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