soursop

sour +‎ sop.

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

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.

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• (tree, fruit): guanabana

• custard apple (“tree of the genus Annona”)

• annonaceous

• sporous