Lexic.us

Definition of Pond apple

1. Noun. Small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit; used chiefly as grafting stock.

2. Noun. Ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peach-colored flesh; related to custard apples.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pond Apple

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Literary usage of Pond apple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Trees with trunks bulging at base; fruit compound, of many united pistils. 2. Genus ANONA, Linn. (A. glabra) pond apple , i. Genus ASIMINA, Adans. ..."

2. Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Value of Fruits and Nine Hundred by Riley Maria Fletcher Berry (1907)
"The pond apple, A. palustris or A. glabra, or laurifolia, sometimes mistakenly called "the Custard Apple," which name properly belongs to the Bullock's ..."

3. The Everglades and Other Essays Relating to Southern Florida by John Clayton Gifford (1912)
"The pond-apple is the Florida representative of the great Anona family which ... Some people eat the pond-apple and I think I have seen it on sale in ..."

4. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"The pond apple is found in wet situations in southern Pla. on the shores of the east coast from Biscayne Bay to Cape Malabar, and on the west coast from ..."

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