Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Spain, the medlar-tree, Mespilus Germanica.
- noun In the Spanish West Indies, the sapodilla, Sapota zapotilla, the name of which has been corrupted in Jamaica to nase-berry.
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Examples
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Gorge on nispero, or loquat in English, an apricot look-alike with the juicy flesh of a litchi rarely found outside southern Spain and Italy.
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Near the Santo Cerro church is the trunk of the nispero tree, gnarled with age, from which Columbus is said to have cut the wood for his cross.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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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.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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He led the way through a reptilious swamp and into the fringe of a nispero forest, where they came upon a hut with a roof of corrugated iron and walls of wattled bamboo.
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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Tainos natives -- think nispero (a pulpy oval fruit) and yampee (an edible tuber) -- with
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The land has more than a hundred fruit trees, primarily orange but also lemon, nispero, walnut, fig, pear, apple, pomegranate and plum.
WN.com - Articles related to French holiday firm debuts 'Eco-Nature' resorts 2010
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The land has more than a hundred fruit trees, primarily orange but also lemon, nispero, walnut, fig, pear, apple, pomegranate and plum.
WN.com - Articles related to French holiday firm debuts 'Eco-Nature' resorts 2010
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Tainos natives -- think nispero (a pulpy oval fruit) and yampee (an edible tuber) -- with
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Just before Confrides, pretty much in the middle of nowhere and over the top of a long climb, is a shop which sells all things 'nispero,' an apricot-like fruit which must be harvested in a narrow two week window, or it rots.
PezCyclingNews.com 2009
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We bought nispero marinated in the sweet local Mistela wine - another magical elixir which Mr. Hamilton introduced us to - and nispero marmalade.
PezCyclingNews.com 2009
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