1. (noun)ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweetpurplepulptastinglike gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
2. (noun)ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purplepulp used especially for preserves