caperberry

English

Wikispecies

A caperberry fruit

Alternative forms

• caper berry

Etymology

From caper +‎ berry.

Pronunciation

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Noun

caperberry (plural caperberries)

1. Capparis spinosa, a perennial winter-deciduous plant that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and large white to pinkish-white flowers, often eaten as pickled buds (capers).

   Synonyms: caper, caperbush, Flinders rose

2. A flower bud of a caper tree, sometimes served pickled as a garnish.

   Synonym: caper

Translations

plant

• Finnish: kapris (fi), kaprispensas

fruit

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: taperot m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kapris (fi), kaprismarja; (when pickled with stem) varrellinen kapris
• French: capron (fr) m
• German: Kapernapfel m
• Greek: Κάππαρις η ακανθώδης f (Kápparis i akanthódis)
• Hebrew: צלף (he) m (tsaláf)
• Italian: cocuncio (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Sicilian: cucuncio m
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: alcaparrón (es) m, caparrón m
• Swedish: kapris (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• caperberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia