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🍈 A sweet fruit 🌳 A tropical tree
sweetsop

sweetsop

1 9.8
A tropical fruit also called sugar apple that has sweet, soft flesh and shiny black seeds
  • noun
  • /ˈswitsɑp/
  • Indian
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  • I enjoyed the creamy texture of the sweetsop as it melted in my mouth.

Examples

  • Les has a boat-shaped piece of papaya, Babs has a plate of sliced sweetsop.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • To make a delicious smoothie, blend ripe sweetsop with some tropical fruits like mango and pineapple.

  • At the market, I chose a fresh sweetsop that was perfectly ripe for dessert.

Synonyms

sugar apple
vssweetsop
  • Australian
7.0

A sweet tropical fruit with thick bumpy skin and soft white flesh around black seeds

is the same fruit but known by an alternative name
annon
vssweetsop
9.9

Sweet fruit with thick scaly skin and creamy flesh with black seeds

is the same fruit but emphasizes a single alternate name rather than multiple names

Compounds

sweetsop tree
  • Indian
9.6

A tropical tree that makes sweet, soft fruit with thick, scaly skin

Surface Forms

sweetsop singular
sweetsops plural

Morphology

sweetsop = sweet + sop (semi-transparent) = sweet + sop

The compound transparently combines 'sweet' and 'sop' in form, but the uncommon base 'sop' and the fixed fruit meaning reduce full predictability for learners.

Etymology

Sweetsop mixes the words sweet and sop ('a soft bit of food soaked in liquid'), giving the idea of creamy, sweet flesh. That's why this tropical fruit is called a sweetsop and is often sold as the sugar apple.