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eggfruit en · NOUN

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Etymology

From egg + fruit.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Fruit of the eggplant (Solanum melongena).
2. (countable, uncountable) Fruit of the canistel tree (Lucuma campechiana), native to Central America and cultivated in tropical regions.
3. (countable, uncountable) Fruit of the lucmo tree (Lucuma bifera), closely related to the canistel and native to the Andean region of South America.
   • “I’m pumped!” he exclaimed, having just been told that a new graft will increase the size of his cherimoyas, and that he can easily hand pollinate his underproducing eggfruits. 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times:

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