Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tree that is a hybrid between the cherimoya and the sweetsop, cultivated for its conical or heart-shaped fruit with edible sweet white flesh.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
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- noun A
hybrid between acherimoya and asweetsop - noun The
tree that bears thisfruit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Oh man, those (on left) aren't cherimoya - they're atemoya, which is some kind of hybrid that is even better!
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Oh man, those (on left) aren't cherimoya - they're atemoya, which is some kind of hybrid that is even better!
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Cherimoya and Atemoya The cherimoya and atemoya are tree fruits of species in the genus Annona, a native of tropical and subtropical South America the soursop or guanabana and the custard apple belong to the same genus.
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Cherimoya and Atemoya The cherimoya and atemoya are tree fruits of species in the genus Annona, a native of tropical and subtropical South America the soursop or guanabana and the custard apple belong to the same genus.
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(S) Thrives in lowland tropics; seeds will usually become another atemoya but occasionally grows into one of the parents-grafting very common; germination time averages at about 4 weeks; delicious fruit.
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A walk around the garden is a lesson in the diversity of things that can thrive in this climate: tiny turkey figs, knobby atemoya, towering banana trees.
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The fruit on the left looks like a Sugar-apple, which crossed with a cherimoya will produce the atemoya.
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The fruit on the left looks like a Sugar-apple, which crossed with a cherimoya will produce the atemoya.
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'cause that's the only place I've ever seen atemoya …
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'cause that's the only place I've ever seen atemoya …
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