custard apple

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custard apple

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custard apple (plural custard apples)

  1. Any of several tropical fruits in the genus Annona:
    1. A bullock's heart (Annona reticulata);
    2. A soursop (Annona muricata; fruit and tree);
    3. A sugar apple (Annona squamosa);
    4. A cherimoya (Annona cherimola).
  2. A pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
    • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      If you’ve ever sampled an American custard apple, a prairie banana or a hillbilly mango, then you’ve eaten a pawpaw.

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