langsat

Noun

langsat (plural langsats)

1. The tree Lansium domesticum.

   Synonyms:

   duku

2. A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.
   • He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times
   • He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 39

   Synonyms:

   duku