Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical American tree (Annona cherimola) having heart-shaped, edible fruits with green skin and white aromatic flesh.
- n. The fruit of this plant.
Wiktionary
- n. A subtropical tree, scientific name Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America
- n. A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit
- n. large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples
Etymologies
- From Spanish chirimoya (Wiktionary)
- American Spanish, from Quechua chirimuya. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The cherimoya is generally (but not always) larger than the zapote.”
“The cherimoya is as delicious as the zapote; and like the zapote, it has to be very soft before it's ready to eat.”
“All the webpages say so.) markgritter suggested that it tasted like the actual fruit form of Fruity Pebbles, and Timprov suggested the actual fruit form of white LifeSavers before going on to propose that the cherimoya is the answer to what fruit "fruit flavoring" is supposed to taste like.”
“It's called cherimoya, and as the woman stocking the produce section at Rainbow reminded me twice, it's only in season, like, right now.”
“Late in October, for example, it occurred to Eduard that if he cut a cherimoya a custard apple with green indented skin and a creamy white interior into thin slices, the flesh looked like crabmeat; now a dish with cherimoya and spider crab is on the menu.”
“If you should happen to come across ripe cherimoya most likely in the winter months, please try this drink with peeled and diced pieces of that fabulous fruit.”
“• Treat all fruits, but particularly bananas, plantains, cherimoya, and mangos, as garnishes, rather than major components of a meal.”
“I have never seen cherimoya or custard apple here.”
“Then everyone crowded around the picnic tables, tasting rare cherimoya cultivars like Coochie Island, Concha Lisa and Big Sister.”
“Wow Bri, that thing looks exactly like a cherimoya on the inside, but the outside is different, yours is more deeply lobed - the cherimoya has a smoother skin.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cherimoya’.
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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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Another 250 Spelling Words
Another range of words from the intermediate to the advanced speller's level.
cherimoya, parthenogenesis, sommelier, bupkis, kichel, voulge, indivisibility, retiarius, sewellel, vihuela, ossature, jalfrezi and 238 more...
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tropic topics
tropical topicals
subtropic, phototropic, hypermetropic, geotropic, eolotropic, pleiotropic, inotropic, adrenocorticotropic, coptic tropic, apogeotropic, allotropic, orthotropic and 76 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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danceswithtrout's Words
crepuscular, étouffée, fandango, flimflam, avuncular, deleterious, pernicious, schlep, debauch, unguent, ablution, grit and 25 more...
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VEA (Very Easily Amused)
Words that will entertain me when I repeat them out loud at random intervals during the day.
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