soursop

From sour +‎ sop.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊəɹˌsɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

soursop (plural soursops)

1. A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
2. The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
   • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     For a plant whose preferred growing region is the temperate zone of North America, the pawpaw is an uncannily exotic-tasting delicacy, a far-flung cousin of the tropical soursop, or guanábana.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
   1. (by extension) any wood sorrel, especially when used as food

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:soursop.

• (all senses): soursob
• (tree, fruit): guanabana

• custard apple (“tree of the genus Annona”)

• annonaceous

• sporous