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🥝 A sweet fruit 🌱 A fruit plant
feijoa

feijoa

9.9
A small bush that stays green all year and makes sweet fruit
  • noun
  • /feɪˈhoʊ.ə/
  • UK
translation icon : feijoa
  • The garden's feijoa bush produced dozens of fragrant green fruit this year.

Examples

  • She made a delicious jam from fresh feijoas picked in her backyard.

  • I bought a feijoa at the farmer's market.

  • Have you ever tasted the sweet, tangy flavor of a ripe feijoa?

  • The feijoa is popular in New Zealand.

  • Have you ever tasted the sweet, tangy flavor of a ripe feijoa?

  • She made a delicious jam from fresh feijoas picked in her backyard.

  • The garden's feijoa bush produced dozens of fragrant green fruit this year.

Synonyms

feijoa bush
vsfeijoa
  • UK
9.5

A small South American bush that people grow for its green, sweet fruit

emphasizes the edible fruit's sweet aromatic flavor rather than decoration

Compounds

feijoa bush
  • UK
9.5

A small South American bush that people grow for its green, sweet fruit

genus Feijoa
  • Specialized
9.1

A group of small South American shrubs and trees that make edible feijoa fruit

Surface Forms

feijoa singular
feijoas plural

Etymology

Feijoa as a shrub takes its name from the Portuguese botanist Feijó, so the plant and its fruit share the same name.