eggfruit

English

Etymology

From egg +‎ fruit, referring to the texture of the fruit’s flesh, which has been likened to that of a hard-boiled egg yolk.

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Noun

eggfruit (plural eggfruits)

  1. The fruit of the canistel tree (Pouteria campechiana), native to Central America and cultivated in tropical regions.
  2. The fruit of the lucmo tree (Pouteria lucuma), closely related to the canistel and native to the Andean region of South America.
    • 2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      “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.

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