Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical American tree (Annona squamosa) widely cultivated for its yellowish-green fruit with sweet edible pulp.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
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- noun The
sugar apple .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Saramuyo: sugar apple or sweetsop (Annona squamosa)
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit 2007
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Saramuyo: sugar apple or sweetsop (Annona squamosa)
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit 2007
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Remarks: The species is related to the cherimoya (A. cherimola), sugar apple or sweetsop (A. squamosa) and to the custard apple (A. reticulata), generally known as mtomoko (Swahili), cultivated for their delicious fruit and commonly sold in Kenyan markets.
Chapter 7 1999
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Anno. na squamosa, sweetsop or custard apple, seedless
Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986
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The fruits peculiar to the torrid zone all grow in profusion and among them the native is fondest of the juicy mango, the guava, the aguacate or alligator pear, the anon or custard apple, the guanabana or soursop, the mamon or sweetsop, the mamey or marmalade fruit, the nispero or sapodilla and the tamarind.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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Pawpaws are in the same family as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop, and have similar taste and texture to these fruits.
The Kitchn 2008
bilby commented on the word sweetsop
An average-sized fruit has about dozen hard, shiny, black, quite pretty seeds.
March 2, 2010