CUSTARD APPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does custard apple mean? 

• CUSTARD APPLE (noun)
  The noun CUSTARD APPLE has 2 senses:

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

2. the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp

  Familiarity information: CUSTARD APPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSTARD APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

custard apple; custard apple tree

Hypernyms ("custard apple" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "custard apple"):

custard apple (the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "custard apple"):

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's heart; bullock's heart tree; bullock heart (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 tree; pond apple (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)

Holonyms ("custard apple" is a member of...):

Annona; genus Annona (type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("custard apple" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "custard apple"):

cherimolla; cherimoya (large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples)

guanabana; soursop (large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples)

bullock's heart; Jamaica apple (large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp)

annon; sugar apple; sweetsop (sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds)

ilama (whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States)

pond apple (ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peach-colored flesh; related to custard apples)

Holonyms ("custard apple" is a part of...):

custard apple; custard apple tree (any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp)

 Context examples 

A team of researchers, led by Kim McConkey from the University of Nottingham, set out to study one particular tree, the Platymitra macrocarpa from the family of custard apple trees.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)