yellow cattley guava
- noun
- /ˈjɛloʊ ˈkætleɪ ˈɡwɑːvə/
:
guayaba cattley amarilla
- The yellow cattley guava produces sweet fruit that is highly valued in tropical regions.
Examples
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Farmers often grow yellow cattley guava for its aromatic, edible berries.
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Birds are attracted to the ripe fruit of the yellow cattley guava.
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Wow, this yellow cattley guava is delicious!
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Look at that yellow cattley guava!
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Farmers often grow yellow cattley guava for its aromatic, edible berries.
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The yellow cattley guava produces sweet fruit that is highly valued in tropical regions.
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Birds are attracted to the ripe fruit of the yellow cattley guava.
Synonyms
A small tropical tree or shrub that makes small sweet yellow fruit called strawberry guava
A small tropical bush or tree that has sweet fruit tasting like strawberries
A small tropical tree that makes sweet red or yellow fruit, also called strawberry guava
A tropical bush or small tree with sweet red fruit called strawberry guava
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'yellow' (a color) + 'cattley' (an attributive epithet, likely a cultivar or proper-name modifier) + 'guava' (the fruit), so a learner who knows the constituents will infer it denotes a yellow variety/type of guava (a shrub/fruit). Even if 'cattley' is obscure, the color + modifier + noun pattern is a common, cross-linguistic way to name varieties, making the overall meaning predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Yellow cattley guava probably comes from an English gardener named William Cattley, who helped bring the plant to Europe. Because the tree makes a small yellow guava, people added the word yellow to Cattley's name, so today the phrase means the 'small, yellow edible fruit' of that plant.
