custard apple

custard apple (plural custard apples)

1. Any of several tropical fruits in the genus Annona:
   1. A bullock's heart (Annona reticulata);
   2. A soursop (Annona muricata; fruit and tree);
   3. A sugar apple (Annona squamosa);
   4. A cherimoya (Annona cherimola).
2. A pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
   • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     If you’ve ever sampled an American custard apple, a prairie banana or a hillbilly mango, then you’ve eaten a pawpaw.

• African custard apple
• wild custard apple

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