Meaning

A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
2. The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
3. Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa

Example Sentences

For a plant whose preferred growing region is the temperate zone of North America, the pawpaw is an uncannily exotic-tasting delicacy, a far-flung cousin of the tropical soursop, or guanábana.

SOURSOP WEED (OXALIS CERNUA). This rather pretty looking flower has become a great pest in many gardens around the city. We are asked how it is to be got rid of. Although not nearly so difficult of eradication as nut-grass, yet so many hundreds of minute bulbs gather round the parent bulb that the more the ground is stirred the greater the area infested. We know however of no destructive agent which could be applied to it in a flower garden without at the same time injuring the flowers. The surest way is dig up the bulbs on the clear ground and pick them off, and amongst the flowers to constantly pull up the leaf-stalks. […]

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Word Forms

• soursops
• soursap

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