sweet cup
- noun
- US
:
fruta dulce
- The sweet cup is prized in the Caribbean for its juicy, aromatic pulp.
Examples
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Vendors at the market were selling freshly picked sweet cups alongside other tropical fruits.
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She enjoyed tasting the sweet cup for the first time during her trip to Jamaica.
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I bought a sweet cup from the market.
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Have you ever tasted a sweet cup?
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The sweet cup is a delicious fruit that many people love for its unique flavor.
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In Jamaica, you can find sweet cups sold at roadside stands during the summer.
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She added a sweet cup to her fruit salad for an extra burst of flavor.
Synonyms
A yellow tropical fruit with juicy sweet pulp like passion fruit
A yellow tropical fruit with sweet juicy flesh and a strong smell
A tropical vine that makes sweet yellow fruit eaten in tropical places
A climbing plant from the Caribbean that has bright yellow fruit you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
sweet + cup
This is a lexicalized plant/fruit name whose meaning (a specific edible yellow fruit) cannot be predicted from ‘sweet’ (taste) plus ‘cup’ (container). A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would likely interpret it as a sweet container or be uncertain, and the head 'cup' here is not providing a cue to 'fruit', so the compound is idiomatic and non-compositional.
Etymology
Sweet cup may come from the fruit's small, cup-like shape that holds very sweet juice. The image of a little cup full of sweetness explains why people call this 'fruit' a sweet cup today.
