Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tree (Pouteria campechiana), native to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and having very sweet oval fruit with a musky odor.
- n. The fruit of this tree.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several tropical trees, of the genus Pouteria, from Central America and the Caribbean, that bears a sweet oval fruit
- n. The fruit of these trees, having a musky odour
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (Pouteria campechiana nervosa) yielding edible fruit.
- n. an ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit
- n. ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
Etymologies
- American Spanish, from dialectal variant of Spanish canastillo, small basket, from Latin canistellum, diminutive of canistrum, basket; see canister.
Examples
“Her favorite game consisted of explaining the canistel fruit to me, as there is nothing more difficult than understanding the taste of something you\'ve never tried.”
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers
“Her favorite game consisted of explaining the canistel fruit to me, as there is nothing more difficult than understanding the taste of something you've never tried.”
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers
“Happily, it turned out to be the equal of that canistel which -- while we both salivated -- my grandmother had regaled me with.”
Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers
“The top vote getter with the local people is the canistel (Pouteria campechiana-see drawing), simply because it is good food.”
“But now jakfruit, canistel, rollinia, black sapote, yellow passion fruit, abiu and inga are big favorites with the local people.”
“Its taste is similar to the sweet potato that is widely grown and eaten here [Ed: except that canistel does not need to be cooked.]”
“Then envision going to other trees and doing the same thing for 10, 20 or 30 minutes: avocado, canistel, loquat, macadamia etc.”
“The next morning, I found a yellow canistel in the CSA farm box; the fruit splits when ripe and tastes like an egg (it's also called eggfruit) - and was hidden beneath lettuces, tomatoes, and zucchini.”
“This morning, Jenne, Jess, and I explored the Pinecrest market that has just opened for the season; Redland Organics (they are part of the farm collective that make up the CSA farm boxes) displayed more canistel along with black sapote and starfruit.”
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Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canistel’.
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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 334 more...
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Fruit, Sex and Other Morsels
Because drippy passionfruit, and he was pricked pineapple but sometime around cherry durian blond twins started persimmon, lychee papaya and before we knew it, quince plum mango mango and O O O Ora...
sweetsop, canistel, velvet apple, sticky, viscid, ganache, damson, rambutan, papain, fruit bat, spread, cream and 6 more...
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