Meaning & use

sweetsop

noun·Advanced

A tropical fruit with lumpy, greenish skin and sweet, custard-like white flesh, also called a sugar apple.

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Street vendors sold ripe sweetsop alongside mangoes and papayas at the market.

The sweetsop's flesh separates easily from its many black seeds.

A note on using this word

Closely related to the cherimoya and soursop, all members of the same fruit family.

Words with a similar meaning

sugar apple

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