Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A conical or heart-shaped green fruit with edible sweet white flesh.
- n. The tree producing this fruit, a hybrid between the cherimoya and the sweetsop.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Philippine English ates, sweetsop (from Tagalog atis) + (cheri)moya. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Oh man, those (on left) aren't cherimoya - they're atemoya, which is some kind of hybrid that is even better!”
“Cherimoya and Atemoya The cherimoya and atemoya are tree fruits of species in the genus Annona, a native of tropical and subtropical South America the soursop or guanabana and the custard apple belong to the same genus.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“(S) Thrives in lowland tropics; seeds will usually become another atemoya but occasionally grows into one of the parents-grafting very common; germination time averages at about 4 weeks; delicious fruit.”
“A walk around the garden is a lesson in the diversity of things that can thrive in this climate: tiny turkey figs, knobby atemoya, towering banana trees.”
“The fruit on the left looks like a Sugar-apple, which crossed with a cherimoya will produce the atemoya.”
“cause that's the only place I've ever seen atemoya …”
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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hybrid fruits and a few beasties too
tangelo, pluot, tomacco, citrofortunella, limequat, ugli fruit, grapefruit, oroblanco, calamondin, orangelo, dekopon, lemanderin and 33 more...
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