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guayaba

guayaba

7.6
A tropical fruit with sweet pink or white flesh
  • noun
  • /ɡwaɪˈɑːbə/
  • Philippine
translation icon : guayaba
  • I love eating guayaba in the morning.

Examples

  • The market sells ripe guayaba that are perfect for smoothies.

  • I tasted guayaba for the first time while traveling in the Caribbean.

  • She made a delicious jam from fresh guayaba.

  • The guayabas were ripe and ready to eat.

  • The guayaba is a delicious tropical fruit that tastes sweet and has pink flesh.

  • In Mexico, people often make juice from fresh guayaba to enjoy on hot days.

  • The farmer harvested ripe guayabas from his orchard to sell at the local market.

Synonyms

guava
vsguayaba
5 3.2

A tropical fruit with yellow skin and soft pink or white inside often eaten fresh and used to make jelly

is the common name stressing sweet pink or white flesh

How Sweet

mango
34 1.0
banana
153 1.0
guayaba
  • Philippine
7.6
apple
583 1.0
cranberry
61 1.4
lemon
60 1.0

Surface Forms

guayaba singular
guayabas plural

Etymology

Guayaba comes from a native Caribbean word people used for the fruit, and Spanish kept that name when they started using it. It is the same fruit English calls guava, so the word still means the sweet tropical 'fruit'.