guayaba
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A sweet thick paste made from guava fruit
- noun
- /ɡaɪˈɑːbə/
- Philippine
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pasta de guayaba
- I spread delicious guayaba on my toast for breakfast.
Examples
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For dessert, she made a cake with a layer of guayaba filling.
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The recipe calls for guayaba to add sweetness and flavor to the dish.
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" You're not coming home with me," she whispered angrily to Douglas the first chance she got while they drank their sidra and ate the flaky guayaba pastries.
Fiction book (1998)
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guayaba is also used for a sweet paste or jam made from the fruit because people used the same name for what the fruit made. So guayaba can mean both the guava 'fruit' and the sweet 'paste' or 'spread'.