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🍈 A tropical fruit 🌳 A tropical tree
pulasan

pulasan

9.9
A sweet tropical fruit like a rambutan with red skin
  • noun
  • Philippine
translation icon : pulasan
  • The skin of the pulasan fruit is easily twisted open to reveal the juicy flesh.

Examples

  • The pulasan is sweeter than the rambutan.

  • The market had a fresh batch of pulasan alongside mangosteens and rambutans.

  • Locals enjoy eating pulasan fresh or adding it to desserts for its sweet flavor.

  • I tried a pulasan for the first time yesterday.

  • Locals enjoy eating pulasan fresh or adding it to desserts for its sweet flavor.

  • The market had a fresh batch of pulasan alongside mangosteens and rambutans.

  • The skin of the pulasan fruit is easily twisted open to reveal the juicy flesh.

Synonyms

pulassan
vspulasan
  • Philippine
9.9

A tropical tree that makes a sweet fruit like a rambutan

refers only to the edible fruit rather than the tree

Compounds

pulasan tree
  • Philippine
9.9

A tropical tree that grows sweet fruit like rambutan

How Sweet

pulasan
  • Philippine
9.9
mango
34 1.0
banana
153 1.0
orange
126 1.0
apple
87 1.0
rambutan
  • Philippine
9.5
lemon
318 1.0

Surface Forms

pulasan singular
pulasan plural

Etymology

The word pulasan comes from Malay pulas, which means 'to twist', because the fruit is named for the easy way you twist its skin to open it and reach the sweet flesh.