cattley guava
- noun
- /ˈkætli ˈɡwɑːvə/
- US
:
guayaba de Cattley
- The cattley guava produces small, dark red fruits that are sweet and tangy.
Examples
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She made a delicious jam from fresh cattley guava picked from the garden.
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Farmers in Hawaii often grow cattley guava for its hardy nature and tasty fruit.
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The cattley guava tree produces delicious fruit.
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I love the taste of cattley guava in smoothies.
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She made a delicious jam from fresh cattley guava picked from the garden.
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Farmers in Hawaii often grow cattley guava for its hardy nature and tasty fruit.
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The cattley guava produces small, dark red fruits that are sweet and tangy.
Synonyms
A tropical bush or small tree with sweet red fruit called strawberry guava
A small tropical bush or tree that has sweet fruit tasting like strawberries
A small tropical tree or shrub that makes small sweet yellow fruit called strawberry guava
A small tropical bush or tree that produces deep red oval fruit you can eat
A small tree or bush that has small yellow fruit you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
cattley + guava
The phrase is compositionally a modifier + noun: it names a particular kind of guava, so a learner who knows 'guava' will infer it refers to a type/variety of guava (a tree/fruit). Although 'cattley' is a proper name/specific epithet and does not have an independent lexical meaning, the pattern 'X + guava' transparently signals a variety, a pattern common across languages.
Etymology
Cattley guava probably comes from an English gardener, William Cattley, who helped grow the plant in the 1800s. So the name means the guava connected to Cattley, which is why it means this small tree with red, sweet fruit, also called 'strawberry guava'.
