Annona reticulata
- noun
- Specialized
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annona reticulata
- The Annona reticulata thrives in warm, humid climates and produces edible fruit each year.
Examples
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Farmers in Central America often cultivate Annona reticulata for its nutritious fruit.
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I tasted the fruit of the Annona reticulata for the first time last summer.
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Botanists studied the unique leaf patterns and fruit texture of Annona reticulata.
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The Annona reticulata tree can grow up to 8 meters tall.
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Farmers in Central America often cultivate Annona reticulata for its nutritious fruit.
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I tasted the fruit of the Annona reticulata for the first time last summer.
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The Annona reticulata thrives in warm, humid climates and produces edible fruit each year.
Synonyms
A small tropical tree that grows a slightly bristly heart-shaped fruit
A small tropical tree that produces a heart-shaped fruit with a sweet-tart taste
A small tropical tree that makes a rough, heart-shaped sour fruit
A tropical tree from the Americas that grows sweet, soft fruit
A sweet, soft fruit from a tropical tree that you eat fresh
Surface Forms
Morphology
Annona + reticulata
This is a taxonomic binomial composed of a genus name ('Annona') plus a specific epithet; if a learner knows 'Annona' (a genus of fruit trees) and the epithet ('reticulata') as a modifier/species label, they can infer it names a particular Annona species — i.e., a type of small tropical tree that bears the genus's fruit. Scientific naming is compositional and follows a regular, cross-linguistic pattern, so the overall meaning is derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Annona reticulata comes from a native word and a Latin word: Annona from a Caribbean word 'anón' for the sweet fruit, and reticulata meaning 'net-like' because the fruit's skin often has a rough, net pattern. So the name points to the custard apple tree and its netted, heart-shaped fruit.
