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CUSTARD APPLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("custard apple" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "custard apple"):

cherimolla; cherimoya (large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples)

guanabana; soursop (large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples)

bullock's heart; Jamaica apple (large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp)

annon; sugar apple; sweetsop (sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds)

ilama (whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States)

pond apple (ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peach-colored flesh; related to custard apples)

Holonyms ("custard apple" is a part of...):

custard apple; custard apple tree (any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp

Synonyms:

custard apple; custard apple tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("custard apple" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "custard apple"):

custard apple (the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "custard apple"):

Annona cherimola; cherimoya; cherimoya tree (small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit)

Annona diversifolia; ilama; ilama tree (tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit)

Annona muricata; prickly custard apple; soursop; soursop tree (small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit)

Annona reticulata; bullock's heart; bullock's heart tree; bullock heart (small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit)

Annona squamosa; sweetsop; sweetsop tree (tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds)

Annona glabra; pond-apple tree; pond apple (small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit; used chiefly as grafting stock)

Asimina triloba; papaw; papaw tree; pawpaw (small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit)

Holonyms ("custard apple" is a member of...):

Annona; genus Annona (type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs)

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