soursop

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English

The soursop fruit
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Etymology

From sour +‎ sop.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaʊəɹˌsɒp/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

soursop (plural soursops)

  1. A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
  2. The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
    • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      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.
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
    1. (by extension) any wood sorrel, especially when used as food

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  1. ^ sour-sop, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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