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sour-sop

sour-sop is the alternative form of soursop.

Meaning of soursop

Noun

soursop (plural soursops)

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

Forms of sour-sop

pluralsour-sops

Questions about sour-sop

What is sour-sop the alternative form of?
Sour-sop is the alternative form of soursop.

Words near sour-sop in the dictionary

  1. sour worm
  2. sour worms
  3. sour-dough
  4. sour-doughs
  5. sour-faced
  6. sour-sop
  7. sour-sops
  8. sour-sweet
  9. Sourashtra
  10. Sourashtras
  11. Sourav

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