NOUN
- the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp
- any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp
How To Use custard apple In A Sentence
- Late in October, for example, it occurred to Eduard that if he cut a cherimoya a custard apple with green indented skin and a creamy white interior into thin slices, the flesh looked like crabmeat; now a dish with cherimoya and spider crab is on the menu. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
- Cherimoya and Atemoya The cherimoya and atemoya are tree fruits of species in the genus Annona, a native of tropical and subtropical South America the soursop or guanabana and the custard apple belong to the same genus. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- Soursop and custard apple are widely distributed in Central America and the Caribbean, while sweetsop is commonest in India and Southeast Asia.
- If you are growing custard apples, bananas, sapodillas and carambolas, they could all do with a dressing of citrus and fruit tree fertiliser spread evenly around under the leaf canopy.
- There are pyramids of sweet-smelling guavas, papayas, watermelons, pineapples, custard apples, lemons, limes and avocados.
- Anno. na squamosa, sweetsop or custard apple, seedless Blood Test
- Locally grown fruit and vegetables can be a bargain - Jaffa oranges and other citrus fruit of course, but also exotic fruits such as fresh dates, persimmons, custard apples (sweetsops) and starfruits.
- Around the garden she has fruit trees like guava, mango, jack fruit, figs, sapota, custard apple, avocado bulls-heart and in the centre is the foliage.
- After a while I found that I liked to eat some custard apples better than others.
- Remarks: The species is related to the cherimoya (A. cherimola), sugar apple or sweetsop (A. squamosa) and to the custard apple (A. reticulata), generally known as mtomoko (Swahili), cultivated for their delicious fruit and commonly sold in Kenyan markets. Chapter 7
