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CUSTARD APPLE TREE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

custard apple; custard apple tree

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Nouns denoting plants

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

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "custard apple tree"):

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 tree"):

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 tree" is a member of...):

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

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