Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical American evergreen tree (Annona squamosa) widely cultivated for its yellowish-green fruit with sweet edible pulp.
- n. The fruit of this tree. Also called sugar apple.
Wiktionary
- n. The sugar apple.
Etymologies
- sweet + sop (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Saramuyo: sugar apple or sweetsop (Annona squamosa)”
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit
“Remarks: The species is related to the cherimoya (A. cherimola), sugar apple or sweetsop (A. squamosa) and to the custard apple (A. reticulata), generally known as mtomoko (Swahili), cultivated for their delicious fruit and commonly sold in Kenyan markets.”
“Anno. na squamosa, sweetsop or custard apple, seedless”
“The fruits peculiar to the torrid zone all grow in profusion and among them the native is fondest of the juicy mango, the guava, the aguacate or alligator pear, the anon or custard apple, the guanabana or soursop, the mamon or sweetsop, the mamey or marmalade fruit, the nispero or sapodilla and the tamarind.”
“Pawpaws are in the same family as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop, and have similar taste and texture to these fruits.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sweetsop’.
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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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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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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
tatty, neep, flummery, babaganoush, tahini, samphire, loblolly, scrumpy, fressen, luwak, duxelle, edamame and 213 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sweetsop.
bilby An average-sized fruit has about dozen hard, shiny, black, quite pretty seeds. Mar 1, 2010