guava
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- noun
- /ˈɡwɑːvə/
:
guayaba
- Excited by what they saw, the researchers stopped and had a field day munching on the ripe guavas.
Yes, I got that orange and guava.
- Yes, I got that orange and guava.
- My first essential Celsius Kiwi Guava sparkling energy drink.
- This is passion fruit or guava or BlackBerry or passion fruit, BlackBerry guava, yogurt.
- And now Roy's got guava juice and they both continue to do bath challenges beyond ice.
Examples
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For dessert, we enjoyed a sweet guava topped with fresh cream.
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Ellie, pass the guava jelly, please.
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How about a nice, fresh guava?
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Let's pick some guavas before going back.
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Once in the kitchen, Rosalie poured him a glass of guava juice and had him wait while she got the cooler from the basement.
Fiction book (2002) -
His favorite bookseller was gone, the stall now given over to a tempting display of apples, tangerines, and bright yellow guava.
Fiction book (1991) -
When Dennis Gonsalves was growing up in Hawaii in the 1950s, eating guavas and mangos from the tree was a regular treat.
Academic text (2004) -
For the fruits—the papaya, sugar apple, guava, star fruit, and even the coconut would be great for breakfast.
Blog text (26) -
She spread guava jelly on her toast every morning.
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In tropical regions, guavas are popular for making jams and desserts.
Synonyms
A tropical fruit with sweet pink or white flesh
A small tree from warm places that makes sweet round yellow fruit
A South American tree that produces fragrant yellow fruit like common guava
A small oval green fruit with sweet white flesh used to make jam
A small tropical bush or tree that has sweet fruit tasting like strawberries
A small tropical tree that makes sweet red or yellow fruit, also called strawberry guava
A small tropical bush or tree that produces deep red oval fruit you can eat
A small tree or bush that has small yellow fruit you can eat
Compounds
A small tropical tree that makes sweet red or yellow fruit, also called strawberry guava
A small tropical bush or tree that produces deep red oval fruit you can eat
A small tropical bush or tree that has sweet fruit tasting like strawberries
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guava comes from a native Caribbean word, guayaba, which Spanish and Portuguese explorers brought into European languages and kept as the fruit's name. So guava still means the tropical fruit with sweet, often pink or white, flesh.