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Guava

noun

Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit. Synonyms: Psidium littorale, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava.

Small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit. Synonyms: guava bush, Psidium guajava, true guava.

Tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies.

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"Guava" Quotes from Famous Books

... burst upon us six weeks later, about the time of the summer sales. As Wenus approached opposition, Dr. Jelli of Guava set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the intelligence of a huge explosion of laughing gas moving risibly towards the earth. He compared it to a colossal cosmic cachinnation. And, in the light of subsequent events, the justice of the comparison ...

— The War of the Wenuses • C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas

... one piece of ground may be seen growing in perfection the sugar cane, cotton plant, grasscloth plant, arrowroot, tascan wheat, yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, custard apples, pine apples, banana, guava, and many other tropical productions; alongside of which may be seen turnips, wheat, barley, mangel-wurzel, English potatoes, artichokes (Jerusalem), broad beans, maize, etc. At the same place a crop of maize (which was estimated ...

— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

Words linked to "Guava" : Psidium, edible fruit, genus Psidium, guava bush, fruit tree