langsat

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Malay langsat.

Noun

langsat (plural langsats)

  1. A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the plant Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.
    • 2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”
    • 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 39:
      He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.

Translations

Anagrams

Brunei Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laŋsat/
  • Hyphenation: lang‧sat

Noun

langsat

  1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{taxlink}} with {{taxfmt}} if already defined. Add nomul=1 if not defined.))

Indonesian

Noun

langsat

  1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{taxlink}} with {{taxfmt}} if already defined. Add nomul=1 if not defined.))

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laŋsat/
  • Hyphenation: lang‧sat

Noun

langsat

  1. langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{taxlink}} with {{taxfmt}} if already defined. Add nomul=1 if not defined.))
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