Citations:soursop

English citations of soursop

• 1769, Philip Miller, The Gardeners Kalendar‎^[1], page 276:

  […] Black flowering Lotus, Milleria two forts, Guanabanus or Sour Sop, Cornutia […]

• 1783, Charles Bryant, Flora diaetetica: or, History of esculent plants‎^[2], page 177:

  ANNONA muricata. Sour sop. Lin. Sp. pl. 756. This tree is a native of America. It rises to about twenty feet high, breaking into many branches, which are but thinly furnished with oblong, smooth, lance-shaped leaves, of a shining green colour.

• 1833, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge‎^[3], page 53:

  Of others of this order, the fruit is succulent and abounds in a delicate juice, which renders it a pleasant articles of food: under the name of sour sop, sweet sop, and custard-apple, many kinds are cultivated in the West Indies and South America.

• 1834, Examination of Mr. Thomas C. Brown, a free colored citizen of S. Carolina‎^[4], page 21:

  The Sour-sop is a large, pulpy, acidulous fruit, which grows on a tree about the size of an ordinary apple tree.

• 1850, Fitch Waterman Taylor, A Voyage Around the World‎^[5], page 25:

  I might sooner have mentioned the sour-sop, a very agreeable fruit when perfectly ripe.

• 1888, J. Dickinson, E. E. Dickinson, S. E. Dowd, A Winter Picnic: The Story of a Four Months' Outing in Nassau‎^[6], page 164:

  I have been reading an old magazine article upon this island, and the author says that the soursop is a great, green fruit, like a bloated cucumber, and that its flesh is like cotton soaked in vinegar.

• 1920, Wilson Popenoe, Manual of tropical and subtropical fruits‎^[7], page 184:

  The name soursop is of West Indian origin, and is the one commonly used in English-speaking countries.