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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]soursop (plural soursops)
- A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
- The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
- 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- For a plant whose preferred growing region is the temperate zone of North America, the pawpaw is an uncannily exotic-tasting delicacy, a far-flung cousin of the tropical soursop, or guanábana.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
- (by extension) any wood sorrel, especially when used as food
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:soursop.
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- custard apple (“tree of the genus Annona”)
Derived terms
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[edit]tree
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fruit
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “sour-sop, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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