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custard apple tree

DEFINITIONS OF: custard apple tree

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n any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp

Synonyms:
custard apple
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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 heart, bullock's heart, bullock's heart tree
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, pond-apple tree
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
Type of:
fruit tree
tree bearing edible fruit
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