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🍈 A tropical fruit 🌳 A fruit tree 🍬 A sweet spread
guayaba

guayaba

9.1
A tropical tree or shrub that grows guava fruit
  • noun
  • /ɡaɪˈɑːbə/
  • Philippine
translation icon : guayabo
  • The guayaba in their backyard provided shade and delicious fruit every summer.

Examples

  • The guayaba tree is known for its sweet fruit.

  • The guayaba tree in our garden produces fruit that we enjoy in smoothies.

  • Farmers in the region grow guayaba for both local markets and export.

  • She learned how to make jam from fresh guayaba picked that morning.

  • I love eating guayabas fresh from the market.

  • I picked a ripe guayaba from the tree and savored its sweet flavor.

  • Many people love making desserts with the fresh guayaba they buy from the market.

Synonyms

guava
vsguayaba
1 4.2

A small tropical tree that produces sweet fruit

includes both tree and shrub forms rather than only tree
Psidium guajava
vsguayaba
  • Specialized
8.5

A small tropical tree that grows sweet yellow fruit called guava

is the everyday name rather than a scientific label
true guava
vsguayaba
5.6

A small tree from warm places that makes sweet round yellow fruit

stresses original native region rather than wide cultivation
guava bush
vsguayaba
5.6

A small tropical shrub or tree often grown in warm places for its sweet yellow fruit

focuses on native wild species rather than cultivated shrub form

How Big

big tree
  • Specialized
3 3.5
guayaba
  • Philippine
9.1
treelet
6.8
sapling
16 2.7
seedling
20 2.8

Surface Forms

guayaba singular
guayabas plural

Etymology

Guayaba originally named the plant in a native Caribbean language and Spanish kept the name for the tree. That's why guayaba can mean the tropical 'tree' that produces the sweet guava 'fruit'.