cherimoya

English

Wikispecies

Ripe cherimoya fruits

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chirimoya, from Quechua chirimuya.

Noun

cherimoya (plural cherimoyas)

1. A subtropical tree, , native to mountainous areas of South America.
2. A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree.

Synonyms

• custard apple
• Jamaican apple

Translations

tree

• French: chérimolier (fr) m (tree), chérimole (fr) f (fruit)
• Galician: chirimoio (gl) m
• German: Cherimoya (de) f
• Japanese: チェリモヤ (cherimoya), チェリモア (cherimoa)
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• Kikuyu: mũtomoko class 3
• Quechua: chirimuya
• Spanish: chirimoya f
• Swedish: cherimoya (sv) c