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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A tree (Pouteria campechiana), native to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and having very sweet oval fruit with a musky odor.
  2. n. The fruit of this tree.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A tropical tree, Pouteria campechiana, from Central America and the Caribbean, that bears a sweet oval fruit
  2. n. The fruit of this tree, having a musky odour

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (Pouteria campechiana nervosa) yielding edible fruit.
  2. n. an ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit
  2. n. ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies

Etymologies

  1. American Spanish, from dialectal variant of Spanish canastillo, small basket, from Latin canistellum, diminutive of canistrum, basket; see canister. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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.”

    4: Multipurpose trees

  • “But now jakfruit, canistel, rollinia, black sapote, yellow passion fruit, abiu and inga are big favorites with the local people.”

    4: Multipurpose trees

  • “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.]”

    4: Multipurpose trees

  • “Then envision going to other trees and doing the same thing for 10, 20 or 30 minutes: avocado, canistel, loquat, macadamia etc.”

    4: Multipurpose trees

  • “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.”

    Frugal In Virginia

  • “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.”

    Frugal In Virginia

  • “zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; world = 1; nickname = yoani-sanchez; entry_id = 388125; canistel = 1; cuba = 1; mamey = 1; special-period-in-cuba = 1",”

    Yoani Sanchez: The Impossible Obsessions of Underfed Teenagers

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  1. canistel tree

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  1. fruit tree
  1. edible fruit

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  1. eggfruit
  1. pouteria
  1. genus pouteria

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