Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen tree (Pouteria campechiana) native to Mexico and Central America, having a sweet fruit with the texture of a hard-boiled egg.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (
Pouteria campechiana nervosa ) yielding edible fruit. - noun an ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tropical tree ,Pouteria campechiana, fromCentral America and theCaribbean , that bears a sweet oval fruit - noun The
fruit of this tree, having amusky odour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit
- noun ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her favorite game consisted of explaining the canistel fruit to me, as there is nothing more difficult than understanding the taste of something you\'ve never tried.
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers 2009
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Her favorite game consisted of explaining the canistel fruit to me, as there is nothing more difficult than understanding the taste of something you've never tried.
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers 2009
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Her favorite game consisted of explaining the canistel fruit to me, as there is nothing more difficult than understanding the taste of something you\'ve never tried.
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers 2009
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Happily, it turned out to be the equal of that canistel which -- while we both salivated -- my grandmother had regaled me with.
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers 2009
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Then envision going to other trees and doing the same thing for 10, 20 or 30 minutes: avocado, canistel, loquat, macadamia etc.
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The top vote getter with the local people is the canistel (Pouteria campechiana-see drawing), simply because it is good food.
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But now jakfruit, canistel, rollinia, black sapote, yellow passion fruit, abiu and inga are big favorites with the local people.
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Its taste is similar to the sweet potato that is widely grown and eaten here [Ed: except that canistel does not need to be cooked.]
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The next morning, I found a yellow canistel in the CSA farm box; the fruit splits when ripe and tastes like an egg (it's also called eggfruit) - and was hidden beneath lettuces, tomatoes, and zucchini.
Frugal In Virginia 2009
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This morning, Jenne, Jess, and I explored the Pinecrest market that has just opened for the season; Redland Organics (they are part of the farm collective that make up the CSA farm boxes) displayed more canistel along with black sapote and starfruit.
Frugal In Virginia 2009
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