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EGGFRUIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eggfruit mean?
• EGGFRUIT (noun)
The noun EGGFRUIT has 1 sense:
1. ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
Familiarity information: EGGFRUIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
canistel; eggfruit
Hypernyms ("eggfruit" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("eggfruit" is a part of...):
canistel; canistel tree; Pouteria campechiana nervosa (tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit)
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