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Definition of Guavas
1. guava [n] - See also: guava
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guavas
Literary usage of Guavas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"The writer noticed black and white varieties, but the fruits are not great
favorites with the Chinese, apparently, and figs are but sparingly grown. guavas. ..."
2. Philippine Folk Tales by Cook Cole, Mabel Cook Cole (1916)
"JUAN GATHERS guavas Tagalog day Juan's father sent him to get some ripe guavas,
for a number of the neighbors had come in and he wanted to give them ..."
3. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1843)
"The vicinity is completely overgrown with guavas, and the most authentic truces
of its former occupant are discoverable in some fine fruit-trees, ..."
4. A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies by James Backhouse (1843)
"guavas.—True Church.—Return of Officers.—Wild-boar.—Runaway Prisoner.—Religious
Interviews.—Luminous Fungus.—Prisoner's History.—Tidings—Relapses. ..."
5. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... Mahommedan Call to Prayers — Ants in the Store-room — Cocoa-nut Trees — guavas —
Magnificent View — Grass-fields — Mount Oriel — Flowers — Locusts — Red ..."
6. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"I have cultivated some six or seven varieties of guavas altogether, but find they
are all worthless as compared with ..."
7. Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut by Wilson Popenoe (1920)
"OTHER guavas Costa Rican guava (Psidium ... and soft white flesh of acid flavor
with none of the musky aroma which characterizes some of the other guavas. ..."
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